MacKenzie (Miniture) Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 266. Earliest known date: pre 2003 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

In pattern BKBKBKGKWKGKBR.

This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 14 stripes tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=266

Thread count

DB/20 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K16 G16 K2 LN4 K2 G16 K16 DB18 R/4

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. Fruin Colquhoun — ΔT 0.43
2. Glengoyne Distillery Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 1144. Earliest known date: 1993 Designed for the Glengoyne Distillery by Lochcarron of Scotland in 1993. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.49
3. MacClellan Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 325. Earliest known date: pre 2003 The Setts No: 105. Wilson's of Bannockburn produced this pattern in a variety of colours. Wilson called the pattern No. 64 or 'Abercrombie'. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.50
4. 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 0.54
5. Spar (UK) Ltd Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2353. Earliest known date: December 1996 Spar is a UK based grocery chain and this tartan was designed for their 1997 conference in Scotland. The tartan was launched at a dinner at Blair Castle in Perthshire on 6th May 1997. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.58
6. MacClellan — ΔT 0.58
7. MacRae Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 800. Earliest known date: early 19th C Wilson's specimen of this sett is housed at the Smith Institute in Stirling. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.59
8. Baillie Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 278. Earliest known date: 1800 The pattern books of the old firm of weavers, Wilson's of Bannockburn, provide a definitive source for the Baillie tartan. Wilson's were in business with a monopoly to supply tartan to the regiments. Wilson supplied the MacLeods, the MacKenzies and the Campbells with variations of the basic 'Black Watch' regimental sett. The Fencibles regiments were formed as a 'home guard' at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Baillies Fencibles were disbanded in 1802 and it has been suggested that it was the white stripe of the MacKenzie turned yellow with age, that became the Baillie tartan some years later. Scoured but unbleached wool turns yellow in the course of a few years, but this theory is discounted by an entry in Wilson's manuscript notebooks of 1800, that 'this was the sett in which the Baillie Fencibles were clothed'. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.60
9. 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 0.61
10. Logan Rogers Hunting (Personal) — ΔT 0.61

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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