Gunn

Bands: GBGKGRGKGBG · Stripes: G DB G K G R G K G DB G G DB G K G R G K G DB G

This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 11 band tartan.

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Provenance

James Logan recorded the Gunn sett in 1831, on page 404 of the Table of Clan Tartans in The Scottish Gaël — the earliest systematic published collection of clan setts. Logan gives the stripe widths in eighths of an inch, measured across the cloth and reflected about each end (a half-sett):

¼ green · 7 blue · ½ green · 7 black · 7 green · 1 red · 7 green · 7 black · ¼ green · 7 blue · 1 green

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is G/2 B56 G4 K56 G56 R8 G56 K56 G2 B56 G/8. Logan named his colours rather than dyeing to a standard, so the palette here is the Dictionary's modern reading of his names.

See Logan's Scottish Gaël for the full table and method.

Related setts

Later records of the Gunn name adjusted Logan's counts: Gunn; Gunn (Logan); Gunn 2011, Robert (Personal); Gunning, Robert Maxwell Stewart (Personal). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

G/2 DB56 G4 K56 G56 R8 G56 K56 G2 DB56 G/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. Graham — ΔT 0.98
2. Smith (Sir William) — ΔT 1.10
3. Campbell Red — ΔT 1.10
4. Hope-Vere/Weir #2 — ΔT 1.10
5. MacPhail Hunting Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2158. Earliest known date: 1994 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. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.17
6. Maine Acadia (Fashion) — ΔT 1.19
7. Campbell of Breadalbane — ΔT 1.24
8. MacDonald #4 — ΔT 1.25
9. Mowat — ΔT 1.25
10. Dundas Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1041. Earliest known date: 1842 The Dundas tartan originated in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842). The design has the traditional green, black, blue background of the Highland military tartans with twin red stripes on the green. Dundas's played an important role in restoring the Highland way of life after the penalties imposed as a result of the '45 rebellion. It was Henry Dundas, who in 1784, introduced the bill to parliament restoring estates forfieted to the Crown after the uprising, following the repeal on the wearing of tartan in 1782. The Chief today is Sir David Dundas of Dundas, Bart. Appears in Edgars 'Old and Rare' See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.27

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 14313 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.

ID: /setts/s11/g4db28g1k28g28r4g28k28g2db28g1~x2/