Michael from Appin (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 BBGBGGBBBGWB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2943
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/12/2002 — Michael from Appin (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
A personal tartan for Col. Michael's family use. Organised through the Celtic Craft Centre, Edinburgh. Designer is Michael (John). Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's collection. This is for the descendants of Daniel Carmichael from Appin (1736 - 1822) who emigrated to America in 1773. - 2002 — Michael from Appin (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
A personal tartan for Col. Michael's family use. Organised through the Celtic Craft Centre, Edinburgh. Designer is same designer as for #3117 Michael (John). Sample in STA collection. This is for the descendants of Daniel Carmichael from Appin (1736 - 1822) who emigrated to America in 1773.
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
- 01/12/2002 (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: 2943
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5895
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2954
Thread count
DB/8 DR48 DG4 DR6 DG38 Y4 DR4 DB16 DR4 DG4 W4 DR/4
One full sett is 276 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s12/db4dr24dg2dr3dg19y2dr2db8dr2dg2w2dr2~x2/