MacAulay

Bands: KRGRGWGRGWGRGRK · Stripes: K R G R G W G R G W G R G R K K R G R G W G R G W G R G R K

This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 15 band tartan.

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the MacAulay sett in 1831, on page 404 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 black · 9 red · 3½ green · 1½ red · 5 green · ½ white · 5 green · 1½ red · 5 green · ½ white · 5 green · 1½ red · 3½ green · 9 red · 1 black

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is K/4 R72 G28 R12 G40 W4 G40 R12 G40 W4 G40 R12 G28 R72 K/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 MacAulay name adjusted Logan's counts: MacAulay; MacAulay (MacGregor); MacAulay of Lewis; MacAulay Hunting. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

K/4 R72 G28 R12 G40 LN4 G40 R12 G40 LN4 G40 R12 G28 R72 K/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. Oriel #1 — ΔT 1.14
2. Bruce Hunting — ΔT 1.21
3. Wilson's No.213 — ΔT 1.29
4. Skene #2 — ΔT 1.36
5. MacDonald of Staffa 4 — ΔT 1.38
6. Cumming #2 — ΔT 1.38
7. Scott — ΔT 1.42
8. Cumming, Comyn — ΔT 1.44
9. Livingstone #2 — ΔT 1.47
10. Bruce — ΔT 1.48

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/s15/k2r18g7r3g10w1g10r3g10w1g10r3g7r18k1~x4/