MacPhail Hunting #2
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 RBKGKW.
Part of the MacPhail Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2698
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1880 — MacPhail Hunting #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
In Clan Originaux (1880) as 'Macphail' with the thread count: R8 B48 K24 G28 K8 LN6 (LN = light neutral[grey]). Scottish Tartans Society also has a threadcount taken from a woven sample in the MacGregor Hastie collection: R4 B46 K28 G32 K4 W4 There is also another entry with exactly the same threadcount and the comments: 'A modern interpretation of the MacPhail tartan in hunting colours produced for the whisky merchants, Gordon and MacPhail, by the weaving firm, Johnstons of Elgin.' Johnstons state (February 2006) that this is in fact the normal MacPhail rendered in slightly different shades. - 1880 — MacPhail Htg (tartans-authority, record)
In Clan Originaux as 'Macphail'. with this thread count: R8 B48 K24 G28 K8 LN6 (LN = light neutral[grey]). STS also has 1367 from MacGregor Hastie with a count of R4 B46 K28 G32 K4 W4 and then it has 2158 with exactly the same count and the comments: "A modern interpretation of the MacPhail tartan in hunting colours produced for the whisky merchants, Gordon and MacPhail, by the weaving firm, Johnstons of Elgin. " Johnstons state (Feb 2006) that this is in fact the normal MacPhail rendered in slightly different shades. Sample in STA's 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
- 1880 (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: 2698
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2158
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2158
Thread count
R/8 DB48 K24 G28 K8 LB/6
One full sett is 230 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.72 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/r4db24k12g14k4lb3~x2/