MacIntosh

Bands: RBRGRBRGRBR · Stripes: R DB R G R DB R G R DB R R DB R G R DB R G R DB R

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

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the MacIntosh sett in 1831, on page 405 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):

12 red · 6 blue · 2½ red · 10½ green · 4 red · ½ blue · 4 red · 10½ green · 2½ red · 6 blue · 24 red

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/96 B48 R20 G84 R32 B4 R32 G84 R20 B48 R/192. 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 MacIntosh name adjusted Logan's counts: MacIntosh (Moy Hall Plaid); MacIntosh Ancient; MacIntosh Blanket; Macintosh, Charles Rennie (Commem). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

R/96 DB48 R20 G84 R32 DB4 R32 G84 R20 DB48 R/192

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. Unidentified Cant #14 — ΔT 0.90
2. Franklin Museum Unidentified 2 — ΔT 1.25
3. MacQuarrie — ΔT 1.27
4. Unnamed 18th century plaid from Rothiemurchus — ΔT 1.35
5. Grant of Rothiemurchus — ΔT 1.36
6. Fraser, Wedding dress — ΔT 1.41
7. Fraser, Isabella (Artefact) — ΔT 1.43
8. Lovat, or Fraser — ΔT 1.44
9. Fitzgerald/Baluchistan — ΔT 1.49
10. MacDonald #7 — ΔT 1.50

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/r48db12r5g21r8db1r8g21r5db12r24~x4/