MacDonald of Staffa (Smith's)

In pattern RGRGRGRGRGBGKRGRGRBRWRGWGRGRGRW.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 31 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2373

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1822 — MacDonald of Staffa (Smith's) (register-of-tartans, record)
• c1850 — MacDonald of Staffa - 1850 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)

Thread count

R/32 G2 R2 G2 R2 G2 R2 G2 R12 G2 DB2 G12 K2 R2 G2 R8 G2 R2 DB8 R8 W2 R8 G8 W2 G8 R2 G2 R12 G2 R16 W/2

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. MacDonald of Staffa Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1529. Earliest known date: 1850 This plate is taken from the manuscript of William and Andrew Smith's 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'. The Smith's sources included the findings of George Hunter, an Army clothier, who toured the Highlands in search of old tartans prior to 1822. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.17
2. MacDonald of Staffa 2 — ΔT 0.29
3. MacDonald of Staffa 3 — ΔT 0.46
4. MacDonald of Staffa #4 — ΔT 0.61
5. MacAlister (Gourlay Steele Collection) — ΔT 0.80
6. MacDonald of Staffa #3 — ΔT 0.90
7. MacDonald of Staffa 1 — ΔT 0.91
8. Donald of Staffa's Sett — ΔT 1.04
9. MacAlister — ΔT 1.06
10. MacDonald of Staffa — ΔT 1.12

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 15726 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/r32g2r2g2r2g2r2g2r12g2b2g12k2r2g2r8g2r2b8r8w2r8g8w2g8r2g2r12g2r16w2-b2c2c80-g006818-k101010-rc80000-wfcfcfc/