MacNeil
In pattern WBKGKYKGKBW.
This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/
Provenance
James Logan recorded the MacNeil 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):
1 white · 6 smalt · 6 black · 6 green · 2½ black · ½ yellow · 2½ black · 6 green · 6 black · 6 smalt · ½ white
In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is W/8 B48 K48 G48 K20 Y4 K20 G48 K48 B48 W/4. 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 MacNeil name adjusted Logan's counts: Macneil of Barra - Chief (Personal); MacNeil Dress; MacNeil of Colonsay; MacNeil of Colonsay (Highland Society of London). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.
Thread count
LN/8 DB48 K48 G48 K20 Y4 K20 G48 K48 DB48 LN/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Lloyd of Dolobran (Personal) — ΔT 0.55
- Rose — ΔT 0.59
- Paterson (Dalgleish Version) — ΔT 0.86
- Doon Valley Crafters (Corporate) — ΔT 0.86
- Cailleach — ΔT 0.86
- Huntly Gordon Fancy Tartan Tartan Number: 3215. Earliest known date: 2001 Unknown until House of Edgar published their own Old and Rare. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.88
- Glengoyne Distillery Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 1144. Earliest known date: 1993 Designed for the Glengoyne Distillery by Lochcarron of Scotland in 1993. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.91
- Forsyth — ΔT 0.92
- Fruin Colquhoun — ΔT 0.93
- MacKean Green (Personal) — ΔT 0.95
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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/w2db12k12g12k5ly1k5g12k12db12w1~x4/