Buchanan

Bands: BGKBKYKYKBKRW · Stripes: T G K T K LY K LY K T K R W T G K T K LY K LY K T K R W

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

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the Buchanan sett in 1831, on page 402 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):

½ azure · 8 green · ½ black · 1 azure · ½ black · 2 yellow · ½ black · 2 yellow · ½ black · 1 azure · ½ black · 8 red · 1 white

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is A/4 G64 K4 A8 K4 Y16 K4 Y16 K4 A8 K4 R64 W/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 Buchanan name adjusted Logan's counts: Buchanan; Buchanan #2; Buchanan #3; Buchanan #4. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• Buchanan 1
• Buchanan 8
• Buchanan 9

Thread count

B/4 G64 K4 B8 K4 Y16 K4 Y16 K4 B8 K4 R64 LN/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. Buchanan #2 — ΔT 0.38
2. Buchanan 8 — ΔT 0.44
3. Baxter of Balgavies — ΔT 0.58
4. Buchanan (Logan) — ΔT 0.60
5. Gibbs/Gibson (Name) — ΔT 0.74
6. Baxter — ΔT 0.79
7. Buchanan #3 — ΔT 0.82
8. Baxter (Clan) — ΔT 0.83
9. Buchanan #4 — ΔT 0.84
10. Buchanan 1 — ΔT 0.86

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/w2r16k1t2k1ly4k1ly4k1t2k1g16t1~x4/