Melville Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1050. Earliest known date: 1847 There is a sample in the Moy Hall collection.(1848). This sett, also known as Oliphant and Melville, appears in one of Wilson's notebooks in 1847. It is mentioned in a letter dated June 1824 but without any means of identification. It is also to be found in the Scott Adie (London) collection and in the MacPherson Museum in Newtonmore. Wilson records the second pivot (between the white lines) as blue. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

In pattern BKBKGWKWGKB.

This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 11 stripes tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1050

Thread count

DB/16 K4 DB24 K26 G26 LN4 K8 LN4 G26 K26 DB/8

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Poulter SG 100 (Fashion) — ΔT 0.77
2. Stewart of Achnacone Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 160. Earliest known date: c.1815 'As made for Achnacone by P.J. Haggart, Aberfeldy...' See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.86
3. Lamont Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 216. Earliest known date: 1810-15 See Forbes. See MacLamond. The Clan Lamont are closely associated with Clan Campbell, and the tartan now worn by the Lamonts is like that known as Campbell of Argyll, except that the lines centered on the green are white only. A sample in the collection of the Highland Society of London bears the seal and signature of the Clan Chief dating from around 1816. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.89
4. Granger/Grainger (Personal) — ΔT 0.90
5. Lochinvar Marine Harvest — ΔT 0.91
6. Gordon Regimental Tartan Tartan Number: 214. Earliest known date: 1793 Source references: Cockburn Collection No 10. Logan. Smibert No: 46. Smith No 35. Grant No: 17. Bain. The Setts No: 64. Wilson advertised a range of different quality Gordon tartans in the same colours. e.g. Sergt's Plaids 56 8 8 8 8 58 54 10 54 58 54 8 8. Forsythe, it is said, produced samples with one, two and three yellow stripes. The Duke chose the single stripe. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.92
7. Newlands Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2175. Earliest known date: 1986 Designed for Willy Newlands - a journalist who wrote for The Field magazine and who lives (2004) at Lauriston Castle near Aberdeen. Walker is the maiden name of Willie Newland's wife. Note from Willy Newlands in August 2004 says 'based on a rather bloodstained bit if rag on a family cushion'). Mr Newlands also suggests calling it the "Falconers' Tartan" in memory of an ancestor who was a Royal Falconer at the court of King James IV at Linlithgow c.1495. (Sindex notes). Design based on Cameron of Erracht. Letter from Willie newlands 6th April 1988 asked that this now be named Newlands of Lauriston. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.94
8. Westgate (Corporate) — ΔT 0.97
9. Cheape of Torosay #2 (Personal) — ΔT 0.97
10. Hamilton of Clayton (Personal) — ΔT 0.97

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 15726 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.

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