Drummond
Bands: WBBRGYBWRWBYGRBBW · Stripes: W T DB R G LY DB W R W DB LY G R DB T W W T DB R G LY DB W R W DB LY G R DB T W
This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 17 band tartan.
Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/
Provenance
James Logan recorded the Drummond 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):
¼ white · 1 azure · 1½ blue · 4 red · 8 green · ¼ yellow · 1½ blue · ¼ white · 17 red · ¼ white · 1½ blue · ¼ yellow · 8 green · 4 red · 1½ blue · 1 azure · ¼ white
In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is W/2 A8 B12 R32 G64 Y2 B12 W2 R136 W2 B12 Y2 G64 R32 B12 A8 W/2. 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 Drummond name adjusted Logan's counts: Drummond; Drummond #2; Drummond #3; Drummond (Grey). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.
Thread count
LN/2 B8 DB12 R32 G64 Y2 DB12 LN2 R136 LN2 DB12 Y2 G64 R32 DB12 B8 LN/2
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| 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 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Moray Plaid Artifact Tartan Tartan Number: 991. Earliest known date: 1820 Early 19thC. MacGregor-Hastie's list of unknowns. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.78
- Unidentified Plaid #8 — ΔT 0.85
- Clan Chattan — ΔT 0.90
- Clan Chattan — ΔT 0.90
- Clan Chattan D — ΔT 0.92
- Clan Chattan D — ΔT 0.92
- Moray Plaid — ΔT 0.94
- Holyrood, Chair — ΔT 1.08
- Munro (Clan) — ΔT 1.10
- Unidentified 15 — ΔT 1.11
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/w1t4db6r16g32ly1db6w1r68w1db6ly1g32r16db6t4w1~x2/