MacKendrick
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 GKGKGBGBW.
Part of the Henderson tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5431
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1906 The name Henderson in Gaelic is MacEanruig, which is sometimes rendered as MacKendrick. Hendersons from the north are associated with the Gunns. Hendersons lived in Lochaber and Angus. The Henderson tartan resembles the Davidson, both of which were first recorded by W & A.K.Johnston in 1906.
6 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1842 — MacKendrick (register-of-tartans, record)
MacKendrick is from the Gaelic, MacEanruig' which means Henderson. The sett is similar to the Davidson tartan. - 1906 — Henderson MacKendrick Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Henderson (weddslist, record)
- undated — Henderson, MacKendrick (weddslist, record)
- undated — Henderson (weddslist, record)
- undated — Henderson (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: 5431
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3404
Thread count
Y/2 K12 G8 K2 G32 DB2 G8 DB12 W/2
One full sett is 156 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/y1k6g4k1g16db1g4db6w1~x2/