Sutherland
Bands: BKBKBKGKGKBKBKBKGKGKBKBKB · Stripes: DB K DB K DB K G K G K DB K DB K DB K G K G K DB K DB K DB DB K DB K DB K G K G K DB K DB K DB K G K G K DB K DB K DB
This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 25 band tartan.
Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/
Provenance
James Logan recorded the Sutherland 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):
5½ blue · 1 black · 1 blue · 1 black · 1 blue · 8 black · 8 green · 1 black · 8 green · 8 black · 8 blue · 1 black · 1 blue · 1 black · 8 blue · 8 black · 8 green · 1 black · 8 green · 8 black · 1 blue · 1 black · 1 blue · 1 black · 11 blue
In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is B/44 K8 B8 K8 B8 K64 G64 K8 G64 K64 B64 K8 B8 K8 B64 K64 G64 K8 G64 K64 B8 K8 B8 K8 B/88. 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 Sutherland name adjusted Logan's counts: Sutherland; Sutherland #3; Sutherland 42nd; Sutherland de Albergaria (Personal). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.
Thread count
DB/44 K8 DB8 K8 DB8 K64 G64 K8 G64 K64 DB64 K8 DB8 K8 DB64 K64 G64 K8 G64 K64 DB8 K8 DB8 K8 DB/88
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 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Gordon Clan — ΔT 1.20
- Gordon — ΔT 1.30
- Black Watch — ΔT 1.34
- Montmorency — ΔT 1.36
- Safeway — ΔT 1.39
- Murray — ΔT 1.40
- Wilson's No.157 — ΔT 1.42
- Forbes #2 — ΔT 1.42
- 5th Royal Scots of Canada (Military) — ΔT 1.43
- Stewart of Appin (Clan) — ΔT 1.45
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/s25/db22k2db2k2db2k16g16k2g16k16db16k2db2k2db16k16g16k2g16k16db2k2db2k2db11~x4/