MacGregor

Bands: RGRGKWKGRGR · Stripes: R G R G K W K G R G R R G R G K W K G 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 MacGregor 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 green · 2½ red · 3 green · ¼ black · 1 white · ¼ black · 3 green · 2½ red · 6 green · 24 red

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/96 G48 R20 G24 K2 W8 K2 G24 R20 G48 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 MacGregor name adjusted Logan's counts: MacGregor; MacGregor #2; MacGregor #3; MacGregor Dress Burgundy (Dance). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

R/96 G48 R20 G24 K2 LN8 K2 G24 R20 G48 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. Moffat (1950) — ΔT 1.10
2. Vemma (Corporate) XXXXXXXXX — ΔT 1.35
3. MacGregor - 1800 (Clan) — ΔT 1.42
4. Baluch Regiment — ΔT 1.48
5. MacAulay of Ardincaple (Clan) — ΔT 1.51
6. MacPherson-Grant — ΔT 1.53
7. Ross 4 — ΔT 1.55
8. MacAulay (MacGregor) — ΔT 1.58
9. Highland Queen — ΔT 1.58
10. Dalziel — ΔT 1.58

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/r96g24r10g12k1w4k1g12r10g24r48~x2/