MacMugen
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 BWBWBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2657
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1999 — MacMugen (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Created by Bernard MacMugen in 1999. The light colour is un-dyed natural fibre and the dark is natural fibre dyed dark blue with natural indigo. Can be worn by anyone of the name. Original weavers were Geoffrey Tailor of Edinburgh. Woven sample. Scottish Tarans Society notes record that MacMugen is an invented name; Mugen apparently comes from a Japanese word and the 'mac' was added to give it a Scottish flavour. The originator is unaware of anyone else having such a name and so claims that he is the head of the family. - 01/03/2000 — MacMugen (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Created by Bernard MacMugen in 1999. The light colour is un-dyed natural fibre and the dark is natural fibre dyed dark blue with natural indigo. Can be worn by anyone of the name. Original weavers were Geoffrey Tailor of Edinburgh. Woven sample.
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
- 1999 (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: 2663
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2657
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2657
Thread count
DB/9 W48 DB12 W9 DB36 W/6
One full sett is 225 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/s6/db3w16db4w3db12w2~x3/