Munro
Bands: RGRGRGRBYRBRYBRGRBYR · Stripes: R G R G R G R DB LY R DB R LY DB R G R DB LY R R G R G R G R DB LY R DB R LY DB R G R DB LY R
This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 20 band tartan.
Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/
Provenance
James Logan recorded the Munro sett in 1831, on page 407 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):
6½ red · ½ yellow · ½ blue · 1½ red · 13 green · 1½ red · ½ blue · ½ yellow · 1½ red · 3 blue · 1½ red · ½ yellow · ½ blue · 13 red · 1½ green · 1½ red · 1½ green · 1½ red · 1½ green · 13 red
In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/52 Y4 B4 R12 G104 R12 B4 Y4 R12 B24 R12 Y4 B4 R104 G12 R12 G12 R12 G12 R/104. 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 Munro name adjusted Logan's counts: Munro; Munro (Black and Red); Munro (Culloden); Munro (Logan). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
R/104 G12 R12 G12 R12 G12 R104 DB4 Y4 R12 DB24 R12 Y4 DB4 R12 G104 R12 DB4 Y4 R/52
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 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Munro — ΔT 0.58
- MacAlister (Cockburn Collection 1810-20) — ΔT 0.68
- Munro (Logan) — ΔT 0.81
- MacAlister CC — ΔT 0.83
- MacAlister — ΔT 0.85
- Munro — ΔT 0.92
- Dalziel — ΔT 0.95
- Dalziel #1 — ΔT 1.05
- Munro — ΔT 1.10
- Drummond - 1819 (Clan) — ΔT 1.10
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/s20/r26g3r3g3r3g3r26db1ly1r3db6r3ly1db1r3g26r3db1ly1r13~x4/