Ross
Bands: GRGRGRGRBRBRBRBRBR · Stripes: G R G R G R G R DB R DB R DB R DB R DB R G R G R G R G R DB R DB R DB R DB R DB R
This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 18 band tartan.
Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/
Provenance
James Logan recorded the Ross 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):
4½ green · 1 red · 9 green · 9 red · 1 green · 2 red · 1 green · 9 red · 9 blue · 1 red · 9 blue · 9 red · ½ blue · ½ red · 1 blue · ½ red · ½ blue · 9 red
In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is G/36 R8 G72 R72 G8 R16 G8 R72 B72 R8 B72 R72 B4 R4 B8 R4 B4 R/72. 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
The same sett — Logan's exact stripe order and proportions — is held in the corpus under other palettes: MacTier of Durris.
Later records of the Ross name adjusted Logan's counts: Ross Dempster (Personal); Ross; Ross #2; Ross #3. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
G/36 R8 G72 R72 G8 R16 G8 R72 DB72 R8 DB72 R72 DB4 R4 DB8 R4 DB4 R/72
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 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacTier of Durris — ΔT 0.06
- Ross #5 — ΔT 0.34
- Ross 6 — ΔT 0.70
- Ross — ΔT 0.82
- Campbell of Loudoun, Plaid — ΔT 0.87
- Murray of Tullibardine (plaid) — ΔT 0.90
- Murray of Tullibardine 4 — ΔT 0.95
- MacLeod Red — ΔT 1.00
- Robertson #5 — ΔT 1.02
- Ross #8 — ΔT 1.04
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/s18/r18db1r1db2r1db1r18db18r2db18r18g2r4g2r18g18r2g9~x4/