Welcome to the Carmichael Tartan page. To the right of the page you can see a swatch of the Carmichael Tartan. Please note that colours may vary slightly due to differences in computer settings. Scroll down to view a list of all the fabrics and products available in the Carmichael Tartan. If what you are looking for is not listed please email us as we may be able to find it or make it for you.

There is only one source of the name ‘Carmichael’ and that is territorial or geographic in origin from the northern edge of the Southern Uplands in Scotland. An ancient hill fort or ‘caer’ in a prominent location close to the main route north from the border was chosen by the ‘good’ Queen Margaret in the year 1058 as the site of one of her first six churches established in the see of Glasgow. Due to the prominence of the site, she dedicated the church to St. Michel and the district and its peoples became ‘of Caermichel’ when surnames were necessitated in the thirteenth century. During the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Carmichaels travelled widely - some to Galloway - where they became kinsmen of the Stewarts of Galloway and later moved northwards settling in Lismore and Appin as kinsmen of the Stewarts of Appin and the McDougals. Others went to Holland where Robert Carmichael ‘the armourer’ still has descendants known today as ‘Carmiggelts’. Further movements to Ireland in 1690 and to the Americas from 1650 onwards resulted in the world-wide spread of the name.