MacPhee (B&W) Clan Tartan
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 KWKW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1252
Provenance
Earliest known date: c.1930 In 1992, Sandy MacFie, the Chief of the MacPhees wrote to the Scottish Tartans Society from his home in Queensland Australia, with a request to register the MacPhee tartans. The existance of a black and white pattern was known to him but the precise details of the pattern were obscure. The Society had two reported examples of a MacPhee which met the description. One from the researches of a Canadian member, A.C. Lumsden, and the other from a Mr D. Brown in Leeds. The chosen black and white sett mirrors the clan pattern and was duly registered by the Society. The clan tartan was registered by Lord Lyon in the previous year.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- c.1930 — MacPhee (B&W) Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1992 — MacPhee (Black and White) (register-of-tartans, record)
In 1992, Sandy MacPhie, the Commander of the MacPhees wrote from his home in Queensland Australia, inquiring about this tartan. The existence of a black and white pattern was known to him but the precise detail was obscure. The Society had two reported examples of a black and white MacPhee which met the description. One from the researches of a Canadian member, A.C. Lumsden, and the other from a Mr D. Brown in Leeds. It was on the register as a simple 'Noting' and had been for some time. It is now upgraded to 'Registered'. - pre 1992 — MacFie B&W (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
STS notes: In 1992, Sandy MacPhie, the Commander of the MacPhees wrote from his home in Queensland Australia, inquiring about this tartan.. The existence of a black and white pattern was known to him but the precise detail was obscure. The Society had two reported examples of a black and white MacPhee which met the description. One from the researches of a Canadian member, A.C. Lumsden, and the other from a Mr D. Brown in Leeds.' It was on the STS register as a simple 'Noting' and had been for some time. - undated — MacPhee (B&W) (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- c.1930 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 2699
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1252
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1252
Thread count
K/44 W6 K6 W/44
One full sett is 112 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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.
ID: /variants/s4/k22w3k3w22~x2/