MacDonald of The Isles
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 RBKGKGKGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2374
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1842 The design first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum and is different from earlier setts attributed to the Lord of the Isles or to any of the Clan Donald branches. It is not generally regarded as a clan tartan. The Sobieski Stuart brothers who published the Vestiarium claimed to be the heirs to a manuscript once in the hands of Prince Charles Edward himself but the original was never produced for public examination. The book appears to be a curious mixture of fact and fiction in keeping with the romantic ideals of the Victorian era.
5 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1842 — MacDonald of The Isles (register-of-tartans, record)
Green lightened to show sett. Scottish Tartans Society notes: The design first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum and is different from earlier setts attributed to the Lord of the Isles or to any of the Clan Donald branches. It is not generally regarded as a clan tartan. The Sobieski Stuart brothers who published the Vestiarium claimed to be the heirs to a manuscript once in the hands of Prince Charles Edward Stuart himself but the original was never produced for public examination. The book appears to be a curious mixture of fact and fiction in keeping with the romantic ideology of the time. Lochcarron swatch. - 1842 — MacDonald of The Isles - 1842 (Fash) (tartans-authority, record)
Green lightened to show sett. STS notes: The design first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum and is different from earlier setts attributed to the Lord of the Isles or to any of the Clan Donald branches. It is not generally regarded as a clan tartan. The Sobieski Stuart brothers who published the Vestiarium claimed to be the heirs to a manuscript once in the hands of Prince Charles Edward himself but the original was never produced for public examination. The book appears to be a curious mixture of fact and fiction in keeping with the romantic ideology of the time. Lochcarron swatch. It also appears in a bound book of hand-painted tartans on graph paper from "Coats of Arms, Crests, Clan Tartans &c. Designed for Ebroidery by J Whyte, 41 Clerk Street, Edinburgh" Note at front of book: "This book of clan tartans is referred to in 'The Lamont Tartan' - Major Scobie's copy - 'Two papers addressed to the Clan Lamont Society by Lieut-Col. William Lamont OBE - in STS Library - Page 9 refers." That note is initialled J.T.D. 9.IX.65 - 1842 — MacDonald of the Isles VS Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacDonald of the Isles (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacDonnald of ye Ylis (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1842 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2374
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1366
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1366
Thread count
W/8 G60 K2 G2 K2 G6 K24 DB20 R/6
One full sett is 246 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/w4g30k1g1k1g3k12db10r3~x2/