Robertson

Bands: RGRBRGRGRBRGRBRGRGRGRGRGRGRBRGR · Stripes: R G R DB R G R G R DB R G R DB R G R G R G R G R G R G R DB R G R R G R DB R G R G R DB R G R DB R G R G R G R G R G R G R DB R G R

This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 31 band tartan.

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Provenance

James Logan recorded the Robertson 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):

½ red · 1 green · 8½ red · 1 blue · 1 red · 8½ green · 1 red · 8½ green · 1 red · 1 green · 8½ red · 1 green · 1 red · 1 green · 8½ red · 1 green · 1 red · 8½ blue · 1 red · 8½ green · 1 red · 1 blue · 8½ red · 1 green · 1 red · 1 green · 8½ red · 1 blue · 1 red · 8½ green · ½ red

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/4 G8 R68 B8 R8 G68 R8 G68 R8 G8 R68 G8 R8 G8 R68 G8 R8 B68 R8 G68 R8 B8 R68 G8 R8 G8 R68 B8 R8 G68 R/4. 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 Robertson name adjusted Logan's counts: Robertson; Robertson #2; Robertson #3; Robertson #4. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

R/4 G68 R8 DB8 R68 G8 R8 G8 R68 DB8 R8 G68 R8 DB68 R8 G8 R68 G8 R8 G8 R68 G8 R8 G68 R8 G68 R8 DB8 R68 G8 R/4

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. Ross (Clan) — ΔT 0.72
2. Ross Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 864. Earliest known date: 1810-15 D.C.Stewart says, "The version here given may be taken to be correct." Later versions, including Logans, are known to have omissions. The Clan Ross is descended from Fearcher MacinTagart, Earl of Ross in the 13th century. The chiefship has passed to the Rosses of Shandwick. The tartan is also worn by the MacTiers. Also worn by the Metro Toronto Police pipe band. (Strathallan 1994) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.76
3. Ross #4 — ΔT 0.85
4. Robertson 4 — ΔT 1.05
5. Matheson — ΔT 1.17
6. Ross 1 — ΔT 1.17
7. Matheson Dress — ΔT 1.17
8. Campbell of Loudoun, Plaid — ΔT 1.18
9. Ross 3 — ΔT 1.21
10. Stewart of Killiecrankie — ΔT 1.22

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/s31/r1g17r2db2r17g2r2g2r17db2r2g17r2db17r2g2r17g2r2g2r17g2r2g17r2g17r2db2r17g2r1~x4/