In pattern KGGRKR.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2695

Attestations

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

• 01/01/1950 — MacPhail (register-of-tartans, record)
• pre 1950 — MacPhail (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)

Thread count

K/8 LG4 G52 R12 K28 R/100

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. MacPhail Red Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1031. Earliest known date: 1930-50 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.03
2. Plummer (Personal) — ΔT 0.56
3. Buccleuch — ΔT 0.60
4. Buccleuch Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1505. Earliest known date: c.1840 Reduced 50% proportionally. Described by Wilson as a 'Fancy' pattern, taking inspiration from the works of Sir Walter Scott. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.79
5. Fraser (1745) — ΔT 0.84
6. MacPhail — ΔT 0.91
7. MacPhail — ΔT 0.94
8. Denny Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 518. Earliest known date: pre 2003 This tartan is remarkably similar to the Durham sett designed by Wilson's of Bannockburn around 1819. The variation in proportions may point to a deliberate modification suggested by the links between the names. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.96
9. MacAulay — ΔT 0.97
10. Dunbar Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1472. Earliest known date: 1842 The sett for this Lowland family first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum. There is also a Dunbar district tartan woven by Wilson's of Bannockburn around 1850. It is not possible to say whether Wilson's pattern was intended as a district or a family sett. The Chief of the Dunbars, Sir Jean Dunbar of Mochrum, once a jockey, lives in Florida, U.S.A. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.00

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.

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