Urquhart

Bands: GKGKBRBKGKGKG · Stripes: G K G K DB R DB K G K G K G G K G K DB R DB K G K G K G

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

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the Urquhart sett in 1831, on page 408 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):

4 green · 1 black · 1 green · 1 black · 1 green · 8 black · 8 blue · 1 red · 8 blue · 8 black · 8 green · 1 black · 1 green

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is G/32 K8 G8 K8 G8 K64 B64 R8 B64 K64 G64 K8 G/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 Urquhart name adjusted Logan's counts: Urquhart (Brydone); Urquhart (White Line); Urquhart; Urquhart (Fashion). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• Poulter SG 100 (Fashion)
• Urquhart (Logan)

Thread count

G/8 K8 G64 K64 DB64 R8 DB64 K64 G8 K8 G8 K8 G/32

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. Urquhart (Logan) — ΔT 0.32
2. Lorne, Louise of — ΔT 0.32
3. Stephenson Hunting — ΔT 0.38
4. Safeway — ΔT 0.48
5. Forbes #2 — ΔT 0.51
6. Westgate (Corporate) — ΔT 0.51
7. Dewar's Highlander — ΔT 0.63
8. Forbes — ΔT 0.71
9. MacKinlay (2/4 black stripes) — ΔT 0.75
10. Lamberton (?) — ΔT 0.79

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/g4k1g1k1g1k8db8r1db8k8g8k1g1~x8/