Bands: GKRGYK · Stripes: DG K R DG LO K DG K R DG LO K

This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 band tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/2581/

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• pre 2002 — MacMillan - 2002 (Black - Unofficial (tartans-authority, record)
• undated — MacMillan Black Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 2581. Earliest known date: pre 2002 This unauthorised and symmetrical version of the traditional asymmetrical MacMillan clan tartan is produced by Marton Mills of Yorkshire. Although not recognised as a MacMillan tartan by the Chief (Jan. 2008), it seems to have gained some popularity in the USA. Originally brought to light by a Graeme Ross of Aberdeen, there may be a sample in the Scottish Tartans Society archives. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)

Thread count

DG/6 K62 DR34 DG12 DY36 K/6

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Sample pattern

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Portrait, The — ΔT 0.67
2. Thompson Black (Fashion) — ΔT 0.74
3. Manson Family Tartan Tartan Number: 987. Earliest known date: 1983 The official recording of the sett shows the letter G for the dark green stripe. In heraldic terms this means 'Gules' - red. The designer, Hugh Kirkwood Rankine, clearly intended dark green and this is reproduced here. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.86
4. Wcwm 1062 — ΔT 0.88
5. Celtic Combat — ΔT 0.91
6. Logan - 1797 (Dark) — ΔT 0.91
7. Dickie — ΔT 0.93
8. Blackstock Hunting — ΔT 0.93
9. Denny Hunting — ΔT 0.97
10. Eyre (Personal) — ΔT 0.98

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 14313 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.

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