MacArthur (Highland Society)
In pattern GYGKGK.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2280
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1815 — MacArthur (Highland Society) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1815 — MacArthur (1815) (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
G/36 Y4 G36 K8 G4 K/30
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| Y | #D8B000 #D8B000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.05 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Northcroft (Personal) — ΔT 0.80
- MacArthur-Fox Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1088. Earliest known date: 1986 This is the older of the two MacArthur setts, which links the clan with the Campbells. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.12
- MacArthur-Fox (Personal) — ΔT 1.16
- MacArthur-Fox (Personal) — ΔT 1.26
- Paton (Personal) — ΔT 1.26
- Angle, Green (Fashion) — ΔT 1.31
- Scottish Scouts (1957) (Corporate) — ΔT 1.33
- MacArthur Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1100. Earliest known date: 1842 MacArthurs were at one time linked with the MacDonalds and this tartan has the same basic form as the MacDonald, Lord of the Isles sett. MacArthurs, in Skye, held land as the hereditary pipers to the MacDonalds. There is also an older MacArthur of Milton tartan whose design reflects the links with Clan Campbell. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.41
- Crow (Name) — ΔT 1.45
- MacKintosh Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 544. Earliest known date: 1951 This sett appears in D.C. Stewarts book, The Setts of the Scottish Tartans, with slightly different proportions. The Lyon Court Book No. 1 records the sett in relation to the narrowest stripe. ie Y 1, Vt (Vert meaning green) 10 1/2, Bu 5, etc. The rendering illustrated here multiplies the Lyon count by two. Commercially manufactured cloth may vary from these proportions. D.C. Stewart calls the sett "a modern arrangement". See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.48
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/s6/g36y4g36k8g4k30-g006818-k101010-yd8b000/