Forbes

Bands: BKBKGKWKGKBKB · Stripes: DB K DB K G K W K G K DB K DB DB K DB K G K W K G K DB K DB

This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 13 band tartan.

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the Forbes sett in 1831, on page 403 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 blue · 1 black · 6 blue · 6 black · 6 green · 1 black · 1 white · 1 black · 6 green · 6 black · 6 blue · 1 black · 1 blue

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is B/8 K8 B48 K48 G48 K8 W8 K8 G48 K48 B48 K8 B/8. 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 Forbes name adjusted Logan's counts: Forbes; Forbes #2; Forbes #3; Forbes #4. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

DB/8 K8 DB48 K48 G48 K8 LN8 K8 G48 K48 DB48 K8 DB/8

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. Westgate (Corporate) — ΔT 0.42
2. Murray #2 — ΔT 0.51
3. New South Wales Scottish Rifles — ΔT 0.51
4. Cheape of Torosay (Clan) — ΔT 0.54
5. Cheape of Torosay #2 (Personal) — ΔT 0.56
6. Lamberton (?) — ΔT 0.62
7. Lochinvar Marine Harvest — ΔT 0.64
8. Cheape of Torosay (Personal) — ΔT 0.68
9. Poulter SG 100 (Fashion) — ΔT 0.69
10. Urquhart — ΔT 0.71

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/s13/db1k1db6k6g6k1w1k1g6k6db6k1db1~x8/