MacIver Family (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 BGBGBGGGGGBG.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2492

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/1959 — MacIver Family (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
    A woven sample found in the Dalgety Collection and labelled 'McIver Family . . . circa 1958/59'. No more details known. Possibly a personal tartan. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection.
  • 1959 — MacIver Family (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
    A woven sample found in the Dalgety Collection and labelled "McIver Family . . . circa 1958/59". No more details known. Possibly a personal tartan. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection.
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
1959 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DT/64 G6 DT6 G6 DT6 G52 Y52 G6 Y52 G52 DT48 G/6

One full sett is 642 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
DT#023535 #023535oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

DT/64 G6 DT6 G6 DT6 G52 Y52 G6 Y52 G52 DT48 G/6 tartan

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

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