Malcolm Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1976. Earliest known date: 1850 (1847) There is an error in D.C.Stewarts, 'The Setts..' (1950 1st Edition) corrected in the 2nd edition (1974). The name Malcolm was established, as distinct from MacCallum, in 1770 when the 9th Chief of Poltalloch changed the family name to Malcolm. This may well be the sett on which the MacCallum was based "from the recollection of old people in Argyllshire" and which D.W. Stewart illustrated in silk in his book, 'Old and Rare..'. Wilson's of Bannockburn produced a symetrical version of the Malcolm tartan which was recorded in their 1847 pattern book. The Gold and Azure of the additional stripes can be found in the armourial bearings of the Malcolm family. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern BKGKBRBRBKGKYK.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 14 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1976
Thread count
B/4 K4 G24 K24 DB24 R4 DB4 R4 DB24 K24 G24 K4 Y4 K/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Malcolm — ΔT 0.06
- Malcolm #2 — ΔT 0.51
- Cunningham Hunting — ΔT 0.62
- Elgin-Landshut — ΔT 0.68
- Kinloch Anderson Hunting — ΔT 0.74
- Malcolm (symmetrical) — ΔT 0.86
- Scottish National District Tartan Tartan Number: 2154. Earliest known date: 1993 Designed originally for the Scottish National Party but now manufactured and sold without the political association. There is some similarity in the proportions of the sett to the National Tartan produced by the Scottish Woollen Manufacturers Association in 1934. The tartan has been recorded by the Scottish Tartans Society. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.88
- Unidentified fragment — ΔT 0.90
- MacKenzie Morgan — ΔT 0.91
- MacInnes — ΔT 0.92
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/s14/b4k4g24k24ba24r4ba4r4ba24k24g24k4y4k4-b5c8ca8-ba2c2c80-g006818-k101010-rc80000-ye8c000/