Campbell of Loudoun Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 3. Earliest known date: 1886 The rarest of the Campbell tartans, Loudoun is nevertheless, acknowledged by the MacCailein Mor, Chief of the Clan Campbell. It is similar to the Campbell of Argyll except for a different arrangement of black 'tramlines' on the blue stripe. The tartan may have its origin in the formation of 'Loudouns Highlanders' raised at the time of the '45 and disbanded in 1748 though a similar claim is made for another sett. The weavers, Wilson's of Bannockburn, produced many variations of the Black Watch, for the Highland regiments, by adding coloured stripes to the basic pattern. The sett was not published until 1886 when James Grant included it in 'The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland' published by W and A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern WKGKBKBKBKGKY.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 13 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=3
Thread count
LN/4 K2 G24 K24 DB24 K2 DB4 K2 DB24 K24 G24 K2 Y/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacEwen Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1587. Earliest known date: 1906 The tartan resembles the Campbell of Loudoun except for the red stripe. MacEwans have a historical link with the Campbells dating from 1432 when the lands of MacEwan of the Otter were annexed to Campbell territory. The association was not always a happy one and the 'broken' MacEwans settled in various parts of Lennox, Lochaber and Galloway. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.36
- Loch Carron — ΔT 0.37
- MacKenzie Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 267. Earliest known date: 1778 The MacKenzie is the regimental tartan of the Seaforth Highlanders, who were raised by MacKenzie, Earl of Seaforth, in 1778. The clan held lands in Ross-shire and around Muir of Ord, but in the 12th century, they were removed to Wester Ross, (Kintail). The chiefly line of Kintail died out (as prophecisied by the Brahan Seer) and the MacKenzies of Cromarty were recognised as Chiefs of the Clan. Wilson's 1819 pattern book records various widths and weights of cloth suitable for the different ranks in the regiment. The 'hard' tartan of the period was known to cut the legs of the private soldiers. There is a certified sample in the Highland Society of London collection signed by Mrs MacKenzie of Seaforth (1816). See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.37
- Logan Rogers Hunting (Personal) — ΔT 0.38
- Lochcarron District Tartan Tartan Number: 731. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Nothing See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.42
- Dyce Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 291. Earliest known date: 1906 From W & A.K. Johnston 1906. A Dyce appears in J Claude's 1880 pattern books 'Clans Originaux' which shows single black lines on the blue rather than the tramlines shown here. This is the modern accepted version as woven by The House of Edgar. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.48
- Mackenzie — ΔT 0.53
- Campbell of Loudoun — ΔT 0.55
- Paterson (Dalgleish Version) — ΔT 0.59
- Robertson Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 299. Earliest known date: 1810-15 Also known as the 'Hunting Robertson'. The sett is reputedly ancient, and resembles the 'Athol Murray', though used by only by the Robertsons of the North. The Cockburn Collection is housed in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. It contains some of the oldest preserved specimens of tartan which were collected between 1810 and 1815. The Robertsons claim descent from 'Donnachaidh Reamhair' who led the clan at the battle of Bannockburn. The Clan Donnachaidh museum is at Blair Atholl. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.59
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 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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