Clergy

Bands: WKWRWKRKRKWKWRWKW · Stripes: W K W O W K O K O K W K W O W K W W K W O W K O K O K W K W O W K W

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

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the Clergy sett in 1831, on page 408 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 · 2½ black · ½ white · 2 grey · ½ white · 5 black · 2½ grey · 1 black · 2½ grey · 5 black · ½ white · 13 black · ¼ white · 2 grey · ½ white · 2½ black · ½ white

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is W/2 K20 W4 N16 W4 K40 N20 K8 N20 K40 W4 K104 W2 N16 W4 K20 W/4. 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 Clergy name adjusted Logan's counts: Clergy; Clergy #2; Clergy #3; Clergy (Clark). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

LN/4 K20 LN4 N16 LN2 K104 LN4 K40 N20 K8 N20 K40 LN4 N16 LN4 K20 LN/2

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. Clergy #3 — ΔT 1.39
2. O'Boyle — ΔT 1.40
3. Purdy Black (Illinois) — ΔT 1.52
4. Clergy 5 — ΔT 1.53
5. Clergy — ΔT 1.56
6. Clergy — ΔT 1.58
7. Glasgow Caledonian University — ΔT 1.58
8. Glasgow Caledonian University (Corp) — ΔT 1.63
9. Knights Templar Dress (Corporate) — ΔT 1.66
10. Stewart/Stuart, Royal (Black and White)) — ΔT 1.69

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/w2k10w2o8w1k52w2k20o10k4o10k20w2o8w2k10w1~x2/