MacKay

Bands: GBGKGKGKGKGBG · Stripes: G DT G K G K G K G K G DT G G DT G K G K G K G K G DT G

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

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Provenance

James Logan recorded the MacKay 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):

¼ green · 7 corbeau · 1 green · 7 black · 7 green · 1½ black · 7 green · 1½ black · 7 green · 7 black · 1 green · 7 corbeau · 1½ green

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is G/2 AK56 G8 K56 G56 K12 G56 K12 G56 K56 G8 AK56 G/12. 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 MacKay name adjusted Logan's counts: MacKay; Mackay (Blue); MacKay (Blue) #2; MacKay (Bonner). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

G/2 K56 G8 Ka56 G56 Ka12 G56 Ka12 G56 Ka56 G8 K56 G/12

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. Burns Heritage — ΔT 1.69
2. Jones (Arizona) (Name) — ΔT 1.72
3. Pride of Ireland Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 5157. Earliest known date: 2008 ONLY FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES. Count and sample from Lochcarron Feb. 2008. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.72
4. Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Institution — ΔT 1.77
5. Arizona Jones — ΔT 1.79
6. Gunn — ΔT 1.87
7. Amble — ΔT 1.95
8. Brown Watch Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 1739. Earliest known date: pre 1986 Product of J & D Paton of Tillicoultry, one of many samples presented to the Scottish Tartan Society sometime before 1986 See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 2.01
9. Grant Hunting or Black Watch — ΔT 2.06
10. Montmorency Family Tartan Tartan Number: 103. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Canadian fancy. Presented by Mrs K Sinclair See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 2.06

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.

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