MacMillan - 2002 (Black - Unofficial
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 GKBGYK.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2581
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2002 This unauthorised and symmetrical version of the traditional asymmetrical MacMillan clan tartan is produced by Marton Mills of Yorkshire. Although not recognised as a MacMillan tartan by the Chief (Jan. 2008), it seems to have gained some popularity in the USA. Originally brought to light by a Graeme Ross of Aberdeen, there may be a sample in the Scottish Tartans Society archives.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2002 — MacMillan - 2002 (Black - Unofficial (tartans-authority, record)
This unauthorised and symmetrical version of the traditional asymmetrical MacMillan clan tartan is produced by Marton Mills of Yorkshire. Although not recognised as a MacMillan tartan by the Chief (Jan. 2008), it seems to have gained some popularity in the USA. Originally brought to light by a Graeme Ross of Aberdeen, there may be a sample in the Scottish Tartans Society archives. - pre 2002 — MacMillan Black Fashion Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- pre 2002 (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): 2581
Thread count
K/6 LY36 G12 DR34 K62 G/6
One full sett is 300 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s6/k3ly18g6dr17k31g3~x2/