Milne (Personal)
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 BWGWRWGW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=634
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1985 — Milne (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
When this was first discovered on the top shelf of a kiltmaker's shop in Edinburgh in 1985 it was labelled "not for sale' and the Tartans Society was advised that it was a private tartan for one individual. However, in 1990 it was being offered commercially as a "dancer's fancy".Subsequent sample in STA Johnston Collection states "Private tartan for Milne Family in Canada by D.C. Dalgliesh" - 01/01/2003 — Milne (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
When this was first discovered on the top shelf of a kiltmaker's shop in Edinburgh in 1985 it was labelled 'not for sale' and the Tartans Society was advised that it was a private tartan for one individual. However, in 1990 it was being offered commercially as a 'dancer's fancy'. Subsequent sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection states 'Private tartan for Milne Family in Canada by D.C. Dalgliesh' Milnes are usually regarded as being a Sept of the Gordons or of the Ogilvys. This tartan is made using Green, Royal Blue as dancer's tartans but the Milne dress is this Red one
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
- 1985 (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: 2953
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 634
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 634
Thread count
W/48 DG8 W48 R68 W48 DG8 W20 P/8
One full sett is 456 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| P | #AA2DBD #AA2DBD | oklch(55.0% 0.225 322.0) |
| 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/s8/w12dg2w12r17w12dg2w5p2~x4/