Farquharson

In pattern RBKBKBKGYGKBKR.

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1149

Thread count

R/4 DB16 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K32 G32 Y8 G32 K32 DB32 K4 R/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. Farquharson Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1352. Earliest known date: 1774 First published in James Logan's 'Scottish Gael' in 1831. Four small pieces of this tartan were exhibited by Miss Farquharson of Invercauld at the Highland Exhibition held in Inverness in 1930. They were dated 1774. A specimen in the Highland Society of London Collection bears the seal of Farquharson of Finzean. Farquharsons were prominent Jacobites who fought in both the 1715 and 1745 uprisings. There present day chief is Captain Alwynne Farquharson of Invercauld. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.17
2. 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 0.36
3. Stephenson Hunting Tartan Tartan Number: 770. Earliest known date: 1981 Based on an old and un-named sett in the records of Messrs Bolingbroke and Jones of Norwich, prior to 1870. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.38
4. MacRae Hunting (Wilsons) — ΔT 0.39
5. 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 0.47
6. MacRae Htg - 1820 (Wilsons) — ΔT 0.52
7. 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 0.52
8. Scottish National District Tartan Tartan Number: 2154. Earliest known date: 1993 Designed originally for the Scottish National Party but now manufactured and sold without the political association. There is some similarity in the proportions of the sett to the National Tartan produced by the Scottish Woollen Manufacturers Association in 1934. The tartan has been recorded by the Scottish Tartans Society. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.55
9. Gemmell Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 3213. Earliest known date: 2001 Design copyright is owned by Thomas Kempsill Gemmell and Davina Creighton Gemmell. Designed in traditional tartan colours. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.59
10. Mantle Tartan Tartan Number: 6945. Earliest known date: 2006 A combination of Sinclair Hunting and MacQueen tartans relating to the clan associations of the the two families, Swan and Sinclair. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.60

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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