MacQuarrie

Bands: RBRBRBRBRGR · Stripes: R DB R T R T R DB R G R R DB R T R T R DB R G R

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

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the MacQuarrie sett in 1831, on page 406 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):

2½ red · 12 blue · 15 red · ¼ azure · 2 red · ¼ azure · 15 red · 12 blue · 5 red · 16 green · 7 red

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/20 B96 R120 A2 R16 A2 R120 B96 R40 G128 R/56. 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 MacQuarrie name adjusted Logan's counts: MacQuarrie; MacQuarrie #2; MacQuarrie #3; MacQuarrie #4. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

R/20 DB96 R120 B2 R16 B2 R120 DB96 R40 G128 R/56

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. MacIntosh — ΔT 1.27
2. Unidentified 20 — ΔT 1.37
3. MacDougall VS — ΔT 1.49
4. Unidentified Cant #14 — ΔT 1.49
5. Fiddes — ΔT 1.53
6. Shaw of Tordarroch Red (Dress) — ΔT 1.53
7. MacDougall — ΔT 1.57
8. MacDonald of Glenaladale — ΔT 1.58
9. Perth, (Duke of.. ) — ΔT 1.58
10. Fiddes #3 — ΔT 1.59

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/r28g64r20db48r60t1r8t1r60db48r10~x2/