Chisholm
Bands: BRGRBWBRBWBWBRGR · Stripes: DB R G R DB W DB R DB W DB W DB R G R DB R G R DB W DB R DB W DB W DB R G R
This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 16 band tartan.
Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/
Provenance
James Logan recorded the Chisholm sett in 1831, on page 402 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):
2½ red · 8 green · 2½ red · 2 blue · 1 white · 2 blue · 1 white · 2 blue · 11 red · 2 blue · 1 white · 2 blue · 2½ red · 8 green · 2½ red · 1 blue
In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/20 G64 R20 B16 W8 B16 W8 B16 R88 B16 W8 B16 R20 G64 R20 B/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 Chisholm name adjusted Logan's counts: Chisholm; Chisholm #2; Chisholm Hunting; Chisholm Hunting #2. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.
Thread count
DB/8 R20 G64 R20 DB16 LN8 DB16 R88 DB16 LN8 DB16 LN8 DB16 R20 G64 R/20
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacIntyre (of Gatehouse) — ΔT 0.92
- Wilson (Clan) — ΔT 0.92
- Sydney (Nova Scotia) #2 — ΔT 0.94
- Fraser of Lovat — ΔT 0.99
- Murray of Tullibardine 2 — ΔT 1.01
- Glen Orchy #1 — ΔT 1.01
- Reid of Straloch (Personal) — ΔT 1.02
- Glen Orchy — ΔT 1.06
- Unidentified (1996) — ΔT 1.12
- North Berwick Pipe Band District Tartan Tartan Number: 2342. Earliest known date: 1990 Designed by Donald Fraser for the North Berwick Pipe Band dancers for their visit to Maine USA in 1990. The Pipe Band itself normally wears McKenzie. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.13
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/s16/r5g16r5db4w2db4w2db4r22db4w2db4r5g16r5db2~x4/