MACPHAIL TARTAN

The information held within The Scottish Register of Tartans for the “MacPhail” tartan is shown below.


STA ref:	1031
STWR ref:	1031
Designer:	Not Specified
Tartan date:	01/01/1950
Registration date:	This tartan was recorded prior to the launch of The Scottish Register of Tartans.
Category:	Clan/Family
Restrictions:
Registration notes:	Threadcount taken from a sample in the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950.

The information held within The Scottish Register of Tartans for the “MacPhail (Blue Bands)” tartan is shown below.


STA ref:	1028
STWR ref:	1028
Designer:	Not Specified
Tartan date:	01/01/2002
Registration date:	This tartan was recorded prior to the launch of The Scottish Register of Tartans.
Category:	Clan/Family
Restrictions:
Registration notes:	Both Scottish Tartans Society index and JCT files give black bands on the red rather than the blue shown here and woven by Ingles Buchan. MacPhail means son of Paul.
Information notes:	Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority’s Dalgety Collection which is called MacPhail Red.

The information held within The Scottish Register of Tartans for the “MacPhail Hunting” tartan is shown below.


STA ref:	none
STWR ref:	1367
Designer:	Not Specified
Tartan date:	Not Specified
Registration date:	This tartan was recorded prior to the launch of The Scottish Register of Tartans.
Category:	Clan/Family
Restrictions:
Registration notes:	This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950.


STA ref:	2158
STWR ref:	2158
Designer:	Not Specified
Tartan date:	01/01/1880
Registration date:	This tartan was recorded prior to the launch of The Scottish Register of Tartans.
Category:	Clan/Family
Restrictions:
Registration notes:	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.
Information notes:	Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority’s Collection.

Clan MacPhail