MacNicol Htg (Clan)
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern BKGKGKBRKRGKGKWKG.
Part of the MacNicol Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3503
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1950 — MacNicol Htg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Originally categorised as 'Fashion' but an early labelled sample was found at Kilbarchan Weaver's Cottage (3.5 miles south of Glasgow Airport) in Ayrshire, so it was re-categorised as Clan/Family. Thread count is from the Kilbarchan sample and was re-checked by EBW Sept 2003. The problem with dating the Kilbarchan samples is that the closest one can get is early 1950s when weaving ceased in the village. The samples could have been woven very much earlier than that, but there is no way of so proving. The original note attached to this database entry read: "Shulins Woolen Mill, Claremont, New Hampshire, USA." See also "Nicolson Green (#322) which is virtually identical and dated to 1968. Note similarity to "Old Stewart". - undated — MacNicol Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount taken from a sample found at Kilbarchan Weaver's Cottage (3.5 miles south of Glasgow Airport) in Ayrshire. The problem with dating the Kilbarchan samples is that the closest one can get is early 1950s when weaving ceased in the village. The samples could have been woven very much earlier than that, but there is no way of so proving. The original note attached to this database entry read: 'Shulins Woolen Mill, Claremont, New Hampshire, USA.' See also 'Nicolson Green (#322, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) which is virtually identical and dated to 1968. Note similarity to 'Old Stewart'.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 1950 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5358
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3503
Thread count
G/40 K4 W4 K4 Y4 K4 G38 R10 K38 R10 T40 K4 G4 K4 G4 K4 T/40
One full sett is 432 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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