Cumming

Bands: BKBKYGRWRWRGYKBKB · Stripes: T K T K LO G R W R W R G LO K T K T T K T K LO G R W R W R G LO K T K T

This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 17 band tartan.

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the Cumming sett in 1831, on page 403 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):

1 azure · 1 black · 2 azure · 5 black · ¼ orange · 5 green · 2 red · ¼ white · 2 red · ¼ white · 2 red · 5 green · ¼ orange · 5 black · 2 azure · 1 black · 2 azure

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is A/8 K8 A16 K40 O2 G40 R16 W2 R16 W2 R16 G40 O2 K40 A16 K8 A/16. 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 Cumming name adjusted Logan's counts: Cumming; Cumming #2; Cumming and Glenorchy; Cumming Hunting. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

B/8 K8 B16 K40 O2 G40 R16 LN2 R16 LN2 R16 G40 O2 K40 B16 K8 B/16

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. Unidentified - C20th — ΔT 0.78
2. Buchanan, hunting — ΔT 0.83
3. Hay Gray (Personal) — ΔT 0.97
4. Norwich No.001 — ΔT 1.01
5. Scottish Wildcat — ΔT 1.01
6. Jones, Melnyk (Personal) — ΔT 1.04
7. Watson - Kirby (Personal) — ΔT 1.10
8. Castlefield (Personal) — ΔT 1.12
9. Wilson's No.090 — ΔT 1.12
10. Blue Castlefield — 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/s17/t8k4t8k20lo1g20r8w1r8w1r8g20lo1k20t8k4t4~x2/