Red Lichtie

In pattern WRRWRRRRRRBBRBYRYRY.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 19 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10662

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 29/07/2012 — Red Lichtie (register-of-tartans, record)
• undated — Red Lichtie District Tartan Tartan Number: 10662. Earliest known date: 29/07/2012 Arbroath’s official district tartan was adopted by the Royal Burgh of Arbroath Community Council, 5th Oct 2012. For all, far and near, who have associations with Arbroath. ‘Red Lichtie’ is Scottish north east coast dialect for ‘red light’. Residents of Arbroath, a fishing town on the Scottish north east coast, are affectionately known as ‘Red Lichties’, an ancient nickname that local Arbroathians, as well as those abroad, adopt with a sense of pride. Shrouded in folklore, with different stories being told through the ages, one notable tale is of the ‘Round O’ window of Arbroath Abbey being lit at night with a flame guiding seamen returning from sea. Such a light would certainly have shown mariners where Arbroath was but any ship using it would find itself running aground somewhere east of the actual harbour entrance. More likely the name originates from Arbroath’s original Parish Church, known as the Lady Chapel. Founded some time before 1455, and located at the north east corner of the marina where the Harbour Master’s office stands today, the chapel fell out of use around 1590. Inside the chapel there burned a red lamp. It is suggested that the folk of Arbroath were familiar with this red lamp or ‘licht’, which is the likely source of the ‘Red Lichtie’ name which they are today all so proud of. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)

Thread count

O/2 DR4 O2 DR4 O2 DB22 DR2 B4 DB2 DR54 R2 DR4 R4 DR2 R18 W2 DR2 R4 W/6

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. Red Lichtie (District) — ΔT 0.60
2. Birral/Burrell — ΔT 0.70
3. Birral (Clan) — ΔT 0.70
4. Birral Burrell Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 658. Earliest known date: 1819 The accounts books of the old firm of weavers, Wilson's of Bannockburn, provide a reliable early source for this tartan. Wilson's were in business with a monopoly to supply tartan to the regiments in the second half of the 18th century before this pattern was recorded. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.78
5. Birral, Burrell — ΔT 0.81
6. MacBain Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 951. Earliest known date: 1960 (1847) MacBains, MacBeans, and MacVeans are all forms of the same name possibly from the same origin as the early Scottish King, Donald Ban. The principle family is MacBean of Kinchyle from the northern end of Loch Ness. The MacBains are closely associated with Mackintosh and this is apparent in the design of the tartan. This version, recorded by Lord Lyon under the name MacBain, shows a minor variation on the earlier MacBean sett attributed to McIan (1847). See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.87
7. MacBain — ΔT 0.90
8. MacBain — ΔT 0.90
9. MacBean (1847) — ΔT 1.02
10. MacBain/MacBean — ΔT 1.03

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 15726 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.

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