Graham

Bands: KBKGBGBGKBK · Stripes: K DB K G T G T G K DB K K DB K G T G T G K DB K

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

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the Graham sett in 1831, on page 403 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):

½ black · 6 smalt · 6 black · ½ green · 1 azure · 8 green · 1 azure · ½ green · 6 black · 6 smalt · 1 black

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is K/4 B48 K48 G4 A8 G64 A8 G4 K48 B48 K/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 Graham name adjusted Logan's counts: Graham; Graham Dress; Graham of Airth; Graham of Menteith. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

K/4 DB48 K48 G4 B8 G64 B8 G4 K48 DB48 K/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. Black from Cumnock (Personal) — ΔT 0.70
2. Campbell of Breadalbane #2 — ΔT 0.75
3. Hebridean Old.. District Tartan Tartan Number: 249. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Alternative count on 1990 See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.75
4. Ferguson — ΔT 0.76
5. Hope-Vere/Weir #2 — ΔT 0.80
6. Gordon #2 — ΔT 0.81
7. MacDonald #3 — ΔT 0.84
8. MacDonald — ΔT 0.87
9. MacDonald #4 — ΔT 0.87
10. Murray of Atholl #3 — ΔT 0.88

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/k2db12k12g1t2g16t2g1k12db12k1~x4/