MacFarlane

Bands: RKGWRKRWGBKRWGWRKBGWRKRWGKR · Stripes: R K G W R K R W G DP K R W G W R K DP G W R K R W G K R R K G W R K R W G DP K R W G W R K DP G W R K R W G K R

This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 27 band tartan.

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Provenance

James Logan recorded the MacFarlane sett in 1831, on page 405 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):

10½ red · ½ black · 6 green · 1 white · 1½ red · ½ black · 1½ red · 1 white · 1 green · 6 purple · 2 black · 1½ red · 2 white · 1½ green · 2 white · 1½ red · 2 black · 6 purple · 1 green · 1 white · 1½ red · ½ black · 1½ red · 1 white · 6 green · ½ black · 21 red

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/84 K4 G48 W8 R12 K4 R12 W8 G8 P48 K16 R12 W16 G12 W16 R12 K16 P48 G8 W8 R12 K4 R12 W8 G48 K4 R/168. 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 MacFarlane name adjusted Logan's counts: MacFarlane (Lord Lyon sett); MacFarlane Dress; MacFarlane Hunting (MacGregor Hastie); MacFarlane Red. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

R/84 K4 G48 LN8 R12 K4 R12 LN8 G8 P48 K16 R12 LN16 G12 LN16 R12 K16 P48 G8 LN8 R12 K4 R12 LN8 G48 K4 R/168

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 Plaid — ΔT 0.72
2. MacDougall, Plaid — ΔT 0.85
3. MacDonald of Boisdale — ΔT 1.12
4. Hebridean, North Uist — ΔT 1.14
5. MacDonald of Boisdale — ΔT 1.21
6. MacDougal — ΔT 1.23
7. MacDougall - 1970 (H of E) — ΔT 1.24
8. King George IV — ΔT 1.30
9. Unidentified #14 — ΔT 1.31
10. MacDougall Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1519. Earliest known date: 1815-16 The earliest reference to the MacDougall tartan is in the collection of the Highland Society of London where a sample exists, signed and sealed by the Clan Chief around 1815. The sett is a complex one and the nearest count to the present day day tartan comes from a sample in Paton's collection housed at the Scottish Tartans Museum, and dating to about 1830. The Highland Society also have a sample certified by the Chief MacDougall of MacDougall dated 1906, in their archives store at the Royal Caledonian School near London. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.34

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/s27/r42k1g12w2r3k1r3w2g2dp12k4r3w4g3w4r3k4dp12g2w2r3k1r3w2g12k1r21~x4/