MacLeod of Gesto

In pattern BKBKBKGYGKBKR.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2638

Thread count

B/18 K2 B2 K2 B2 K14 G16 Y4 G16 K14 B16 K2 R/4

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. MacClellan — ΔT 0.50
2. MacTaggert Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 408. Earliest known date: 1906 Around 1214 A.D. the chief of Clan Ross was known as Fearchar Mac an t'sagirt, which in English, means 'son of the priest'. The clan connection between the MacTaggerts and the Rosses, like many Scottish septs and aliases, is very long standing. The clan is sometimes referred to as Clan Anrias, recalling an ancient connection with the Irish royal house of Tara. The tartan was first published by Johnston's of Edinburgh in 1906. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.56
3. Campbell of Loudoun — ΔT 0.59
4. Cumbernauld District Tartan Tartan Number: 1566. Earliest known date: 1987 The Cumbernauld tartan is the same as the MacKenzie, except for a change in the colour scheme. Ancient green was incorporated with modern blue, black and red to represent a new thriving community, proud of its heritage. Cumbernauld is one of Scotlands new towns. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.59
5. 78th Regiment (Highlanders) (Mil.) — ΔT 0.59
6. Baillie (William Wilson) — ΔT 0.61
7. Spar (UK) Ltd Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2353. Earliest known date: December 1996 Spar is a UK based grocery chain and this tartan was designed for their 1997 conference in Scotland. The tartan was launched at a dinner at Blair Castle in Perthshire on 6th May 1997. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.62
8. MacEwen Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1587. Earliest known date: 1906 The tartan resembles the Campbell of Loudoun except for the red stripe. MacEwans have a historical link with the Campbells dating from 1432 when the lands of MacEwan of the Otter were annexed to Campbell territory. The association was not always a happy one and the 'broken' MacEwans settled in various parts of Lennox, Lochaber and Galloway. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.63
9. MacKenzie (Miniture) Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 266. Earliest known date: pre 2003 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.64
10. Baillie Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 278. Earliest known date: 1800 The pattern books of the old firm of weavers, Wilson's of Bannockburn, provide a definitive source for the Baillie tartan. Wilson's were in business with a monopoly to supply tartan to the regiments. Wilson supplied the MacLeods, the MacKenzies and the Campbells with variations of the basic 'Black Watch' regimental sett. The Fencibles regiments were formed as a 'home guard' at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Baillies Fencibles were disbanded in 1802 and it has been suggested that it was the white stripe of the MacKenzie turned yellow with age, that became the Baillie tartan some years later. Scoured but unbleached wool turns yellow in the course of a few years, but this theory is discounted by an entry in Wilson's manuscript notebooks of 1800, that 'this was the sett in which the Baillie Fencibles were clothed'. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.65

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