Carmichael
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 GBRBGK.
Part of the Carmichael tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=565
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1907 — Carmichael (register-of-tartans, record)
Richard Carmichael of Carmichael, 30th Chief recorded this tartan in the Lord Lyon Book LCB XLVIII on 21st September 1984. The petition to the Lord lyon was dated 2nd Nov 1982. Scottish Tartans Society notes that Carmichael of Artherstone sealed a sample of the Carmichael tartan in the Collection of the Highland Society in 1907. This is the first known appearance of the tartan. This sett is sometimes woven in slightly different proportions, most noticeably in the black and green stripes. Carmichaels are associated with the Stewarts of Appin and with the MacDougalls (MacMichaels), but all of the name, Carmichael, have the chief's approval for the wearing of the Carmichael tartan. - 1907 — Carmichael 1907 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Richard Carmichael of Carmichael, 30th Chief registered this tartan in the Lord Lyon Book LCB 48 dated 21st September 1984. Count: K10 G64 B64 R6 B6 Y6. The petition to the Lord lyon was dated 2nd Nov 1982. (STA archives). Scottish Tartans Society notes say: It was the Carmichael of Artherstone who, in 1907, sealed a sample of the Carmichael tartan in the Collection of the Highland Society. This is the first known appearance of the tartan. This sett is sometimes woven in slightly different proportions, most noticably in the black and green stripes. Carmichaels are associated with the Stewarts of Appin and with the MacDougalls (MacMichaels), but all of the name, Carmichael, have the chie's approval for the wearing of the Carmichael tartan.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1907 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 565
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1078
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1078
Thread count
K/10 G64 DB64 R6 DB6 Y/6
One full sett is 296 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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.
ID: /variants/s6/k5g32db32r3db3y3~x2/