Bruce Old Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 876. Earliest known date: 1797 An order dated 1797 in the Wilson's of Bannockburn papers requests '50 Ells Bruce sett tartan'. As no distinction is made between 'old' and 'new' we assume that the 'new' sett, which has much in common with this one, had not been introduced. (Reduced in proportion for illustration.) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

In pattern GRGRBRBRBRGRBR.

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=876

Thread count

G/30 R4 G4 R40 P4 R4 P15 R4 P4 R4 G48 R4 P4 R/45

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. Bruce Old — ΔT 0.47
2. Robertson, Curtain — ΔT 0.64
3. Robertson 3 — ΔT 0.68
4. Bruce, Old — ΔT 0.74
5. Robertson 1819 — ΔT 0.81
6. Robertson Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1391. Earliest known date: 1831 The oldest records show Robertson tartan with a white line. But the modern weavers sett, without the white, can be traced to Logan's book 'The Scottish Gael' published in 1831. D.C.Stewart noted a subtle difference in Logan's count which is reproduced here. That is the use of contrasting narrow stripes next to the broader stripe. Other versions have only blue, narrow stripes. Stewart reckoned that it added 'balance in the design'. Mid toned blues and greens are used in this illustration. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.82
7. Robertson #3 — ΔT 0.87
8. Robertson 1 — ΔT 0.88
9. Robertson Curtain — ΔT 0.91
10. MacDonald of Vallay (Uist) (?) — ΔT 0.95

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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