MacPherson Gathering 1996
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern BRBRBRGRB.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3552
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1996 — MacPherson Gathering 1996 (tartans-authority, record)
Designed in April 1996 by Ewan MacPherson with assistance from Lochcarron for the 1996 MacPherson Gathering in Glentruim. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Lochcarron swatch. Count doubled to show sett. - undated — MacPherson Gathering 1996 (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in April 1996 by Ewan MacPherson with assistance from Lochcarron for the 1996 MacPherson Gathering in Glentruim. Threadcount doubled to show sett.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1996 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
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Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4860
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3552
Thread count
T/12 R8 N64 R8 T12 R8 DG64 R8 T/12
One full sett is 368 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s9/t3r2dg16r2t3r2n16r2t3~x4/