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Bands: RRWGWYRRRYWBRRYW · Stripes: R R W G W LY R R R LY W T R R LY W R R W G W LY R R R LY W T R R LY W

This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 16 band tartan.

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Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Thread count

LN/4 Y14 R12 DR12 B24 LN4 Y8 R8 DR4 R8 Y8 LN4 G28 LN4 DR6 R/78 Sett

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
B#5480B0 #5480B0B #2A418A0.19
DR#800000 #800000R #CC00000.17
G#008000 #008000G #0061000.10
LN#E0E0E0 #E0E0E0W #F7F7F70.07
R#C00000 #C00000R #CC00000.03
Y#F0C000 #F0C000Y #F2BF000.00

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. MacGlashan Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 656. Earliest known date: 1982 Author an historian, Dr Philip Smith, lives in the USA and provides up to date information of new designs of tartan produced in the Americas. MacGlashan is associated with Clan MacKintosh or Clan Stewart. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.75
  2. MacGlashan — ΔT 0.82
  3. MacGlashan — ΔT 0.84
  4. MacKintosh #8 — ΔT 0.98
  5. MacKintosh (Chief) — ΔT 1.01
  6. MacGlashan #3 — ΔT 1.03
  7. MacGill Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1487. Earliest known date: pre 1745 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. The family tartan, which originated with the MacGills of Jura, was in use before 1745 but when tartan was proscribed the sett seemed to have been lost until a piece was discovered in Kintyre. It is now in the Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. The current version, which first appeared in 1930, is known as the MacGill Society tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.07
  8. MacLean of Duart Dress — ΔT 1.12
  9. MacKintosh 7 — ΔT 1.13
  10. Chattan Chief Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1851. Earliest known date: 1816 Also known as Finzean's fancy. The record of the Lord Lyon states, 'Note - this tartan is specifically for the Chief of Clan Chattan and his immediate family.' Logan descibed this sett (without the chiefs extra white line) thus: 'The Chief also wears a particular tartan of a very showy pattern.' It is illustrated by Smith in 1850. Chief of the Clan Mackintosh Sir Aeneas Mackintosh of that Ilk, acknowledged this sett as the Clan tartan in 1816. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.18

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.

MacGlashan Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 656. Earliest known date: 1982 Author an historian, Dr Philip Smith, lives in the USA and provides up to date information of new designs of tartan produced in the Americas. MacGlashan is associated with Clan MacKintosh or Clan Stewart. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015MacGlashanMacGlashanMacKintosh #8MacKintosh (Chief)MacGlashan #3MacGill Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1487. Earliest known date: pre 1745 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. The family tartan, which originated with the MacGills of Jura, was in use before 1745 but when tartan was proscribed the sett seemed to have been lost until a piece was discovered in Kintyre. It is now in the Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. The current version, which first appeared in 1930, is known as the MacGill Society tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015MacLean of Duart DressMacKintosh 7Chattan Chief Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1851. Earliest known date: 1816 Also known as Finzean's fancy. The record of the Lord Lyon states, 'Note - this tartan is specifically for the Chief of Clan Chattan and his immediate family.' Logan descibed this sett (without the chiefs extra white line) thus: 'The Chief also wears a particular tartan of a very showy pattern.' It is illustrated by Smith in 1850. Chief of the Clan Mackintosh Sir Aeneas Mackintosh of that Ilk, acknowledged this sett as the Clan tartan in 1816. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

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