MacMillan Hunting Clan Tartan

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 BGBGKGRGR.

Part of the MacMillan Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 9 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=667

Provenance

Earliest known date: (1906) The modern Hunting MacMillan incorporates red and yellow stripes from the ancient design with the greens and blues of the Vestiarium version. - J. Cant. If Cant's notes are good, then the Vestiarium reference would place the design much earlier - say 1842. - BU. This version which lacks a black stripe outlining the blue square is not generally used.

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • (1906) — MacMillan Hunting Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
  • undated — MacMillan Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
    The modern Hunting MacMillan incorporates red and yellow stripes from the ancient design with the greens and blues of the Vestiarium version. Scottish Tartans Society archive.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
House of Tartan
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
data date
(1906) (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

  1. House of Tartan
    the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity
  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

DB/20 Y6 DB60 Y10 K16 G32 R8 G32 R/4

One full sett is 352 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

DB/20 Y6 DB60 Y10 K16 G32 R8 G32 R/4 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

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.

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