Mitchell (Clan)
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 KGKBBY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3178
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1950 — Mitchell (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Tartan shared by Hunter, Galbraith, Mitchell, and Russell. It appears in the Highland Society of London collection as Galbraith, in a mid-19th cent. list as Russell, also marketed in 20th cent. as Hunter, and ca. 1950 acquired the name Mitchell when it was adopted by the U.S.Air Force Pipe Band and renamed in honour of General Billy Mitchell. It is the same as Ferguson of Balquidder with the green stripe on blue changed to white. In a letter to Lord Lyon in 1990, Hunter of Hunterston quoted the count as being K6 G16 K16 R4 B16 W4. - 1950 — Milwaukee County (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Officially adopted by Milwaukee County on February 19th, 1971 because of its close association with various Mitchells including General William 'Billy' Mitchell. This tartan is shared by Hunter, Galbraith, Mitchell, and Russell. It appears in the Highland Society of London collection as Galbraith, in a mid-19th cent. list as Russell, also marketed in 20th cent. as Hunter, and ca. 1950 acquired the name Mitchell when it was adopted by the U.S.Air Force Pipe Band and renamed in honour of General Billy Mitchell. It is the same as Ferguson of Balquidder with the green stripe on blue changed to white. - 1968 — U.S. Air Force Pipe Band (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Tartan shared by Hunter, Galbraith, Mitchell, Russell, Milwaukee County and now the US Air Force Pipe Band. There is also a US Air Force Reserve Pipe Band that has a different tartan (see 2467) and it's possible both bands are one and the same. See the archive entry for this tartan for more information on the possibly spurious Mitchell connection.
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
- 1950 (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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 8962
Thread count
K/4 G34 K32 DR4 DB34 LR/4
One full sett is 216 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) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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
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