MacMillan Society of Glasgow
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 KYKGKGRKR.
Part of the MacMillan Society of Glasgow tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1271
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- June 1952 — MacMillan Society of Glasgow (tartans-authority, record)
Reputed to have been specially designed for the MacvMillan Clan Society of Glasgow. First seen inm specimen form from weavers Peter Anderson of Galashiels June 1952. - 01/01/2002 — MacMillan Society of Glasgow (register-of-tartans, record)
Reputed to have been specially designed and woven for the MacMillan Clan Society of Glasgow. Threadcount taken from sample in the MacGregor-Hastie collection in the Scottish Tartans Society archive.
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
- June 1952 (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: 2661
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1271
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1271
Thread count
R/32 K6 R32 G88 K6 G16 K6 LY40 K/8
One full sett is 428 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/s9/r16k3r16g44k3g8k3ly20k4~x2/