Crieff

Bands: RRGRGRBRGRGRR · Stripes: R R G R G R DP R G R G R R R R G R G R DP R G R G R R

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=803

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1797 — Crieff (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1797 — Crieff (District) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 803
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1636
• Scottish Tartans World Register: 1636

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• Crieff District Tartan Tartan Number: 1636. Earliest known date: 1793 Wilson's accounts of 1793 mention the Crieff tartan with no details. A manuscript dated 1800 gives details of colour but it is not until the publication of the Key Pattern Book of 1819 that this sett is revealed in full. Crieff in Perthshire was the most famous of the cattle drovers 'trysts' prior to 1700. It is a very large sett which has been proportionately reduced for this illustration. The full threadcount: Light Red 4, Red 12, Green 8, R 140, G 8, R 4, Purple 42, R 4, G 170, R 4, G 8, R 12, LR 4. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

Thread count

R/2 Ra6 G4 Ra2 G85 Ra2 P21 Ra2 G4 Ra70 G4 Ra6 R/2

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. Drummond of Megginch - 2023 BertieLexa — ΔT 0.74
2. Bruce - 1819 (New) — ΔT 0.75
3. Connacht — ΔT 1.02
4. Unidentified Cant #12 — ΔT 1.05
5. MacDonell of Keppoch — ΔT 1.09
6. Hay — ΔT 1.09
7. Strang (Personal) — ΔT 1.10
8. Crieff District Tartan Tartan Number: 1636. Earliest known date: 1793 Wilson's accounts of 1793 mention the Crieff tartan with no details. A manuscript dated 1800 gives details of colour but it is not until the publication of the Key Pattern Book of 1819 that this sett is revealed in full. Crieff in Perthshire was the most famous of the cattle drovers 'trysts' prior to 1700. It is a very large sett which has been proportionately reduced for this illustration. The full threadcount: Light Red 4, Red 12, Green 8, R 140, G 8, R 4, Purple 42, R 4, G 170, R 4, G 8, R 12, LR 4. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.14
9. MacDonald of Glencoe — ΔT 1.15
10. Stewart of Appin - 1906 — ΔT 1.16

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/r2r6g4r70g4r2dp21r2g85r2g4r6r2/