Hay

Bands: KRYKRBRYRBRKWGRYRGRKYRK · Stripes: K R LY K R DP R LY R DP R K W G R LY R G R K LY R K K R LY K R DP R LY R DP R K W G R LY R G R K LY R K

This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 23 band tartan.

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Provenance

James Logan recorded the Hay sett in 1831, on page 404 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):

1½ black · 1 red · 1 yellow · 2 black · 16½ red · 2 purple · ¾ red · ¾ yellow · 2 red · 15 purple · ¾ red · 15 black · ¾ white · 15 green · 2 red · ¼ yellow · ¼ red · 2 green · 16½ red · 2 black · 1 yellow · 1 red · 3 black

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is K/12 R8 Y8 K16 R132 P16 R6 Y6 R16 P120 R6 K120 W6 G120 R16 Y2 R2 G16 R132 K16 Y8 R8 K/24. 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 Hay name adjusted Logan's counts: Hay; Hay & Leith #2; Hay or Leith; Hay or Stewart. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• Hay or Leith Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1215. Earliest known date: 1810-15 Also recorded by Logan and Wilson in the Wilson's pattern books. The Hay Leith connection is believed to have come about through a marriage between the two families. At Delgattie Castle, Turriff, there is a Clan Hay centre and Leith Hall, home of the Leith-Hays, is owned by the National Trust for Scotland. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

Thread count

K/24 R8 Y8 K16 R132 G16 R2 Y2 R16 G120 LN6 K120 R6 P120 R16 Y6 R6 P16 R132 K16 Y8 R8 K/12

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. MacDougall of MacDougall — ΔT 0.99
2. MacLean — ΔT 1.09
3. Whitworth Artifact Tartan Tartan Number: 1724. Earliest known date: c.1790-1800 A piece of material 11x8 inches supposedly cut from a plaid worn by Prince Charles during the '45 rebellion. The piece was loaned to the Scottish Tartans Society museum in 1978 by Anthony Whitworth. The tartan expert, James Scarlett, noted that the sample was woven with a flying shuttle and appeared to be of commercial manufacture. He suggests that it may be a commercial copy of one of the many 'Princes Plaids' made c.1790. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.18
4. Hay & Leith - 1800 (Clan) — ΔT 1.18
5. Whitworth — ΔT 1.25
6. Stewart — ΔT 1.25
7. Breeding — ΔT 1.29
8. Mehrtens (Personal) — ΔT 1.32
9. Birral/Burrell — ΔT 1.32
10. Birral (Clan) — ΔT 1.32

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.

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