MacGill Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1487. Earliest known date: pre 1745 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. The family tartan, which originated with the MacGills of Jura, was in use before 1745 but when tartan was proscribed the sett seemed to have been lost until a piece was discovered in Kintyre. It is now in the Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. The current version, which first appeared in 1930, is known as the MacGill Society tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern RGKWYRYWBKRYW.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 13 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1487
Thread count
LN/6 Y8 R8 K6 DB12 LN6 Y6 R4 Y6 LN6 K16 G32 R/94
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| T | #604000 #604000 | G #006400 | 0.14 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacGill — ΔT 0.70
- MacKintosh (Chief) — ΔT 0.70
- Followers' Plaid — ΔT 0.80
- Drummond Relic — ΔT 0.80
- Follower's Plaid Artifact Tartan Tartan Number: 1376. Earliest known date: 1745 Red pivot = 192 threads in original. W & Y are silk. Sindex title See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.85
- MacKintosh #8 — ΔT 0.86
- MacKintosh 7 — ΔT 0.86
- MacLean of Duart #5 — ΔT 0.89
- Follower's, Plaid — ΔT 0.90
- MacKintosh (Chief) Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1616. Earliest known date: 1810-15 Logan wrote 'The Chief also wears a particular tartan of a very showy pattern' and the Smiths of Mauchline illustrated it in their 1850 book 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans & Families of Scotland' See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.90
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s13/r94g32k16w6y6r4y6w6b12k6r8y8w6-b2c2c80-g006818-k101010-rc80000-we0e0e0-ye8c000/