Cleland Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2181. Earliest known date: 1989 The Tartan is based on the Douglas as the Clelands were hereditary foresters to the Douglases. There was a deal of inter-marriage between the Douglases, the Hamiltons and the Clelands. In 1989 John Clelland Hocknull of Casuavina in Australia's Northern Territories made it known that he was the Founder of the Northern Territories Clan Clelland Association Inc. who wanted to have a Clelland tartan designed. the task fell to Harry Lindley of Kinloch Anderson. D.C. Dalgliesh of Selkirk wove the first piece. Lord Lyon may have recorded the sett in the Lyon Court Books, but this is unconfirmed. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Bands: KBGWR · Stripes: K T G W R K T G W R
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 5 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2181
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- undated — Cleland Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2181. Earliest known date: 1989 The Tartan is based on the Douglas as the Clelands were hereditary foresters to the Douglases. There was a deal of inter-marriage between the Douglases, the Hamiltons and the Clelands. In 1989 John Clelland Hocknull of Casuavina in Australia's Northern Territories made it known that he was the Founder of the Northern Territories Clan Clelland Association Inc. who wanted to have a Clelland tartan designed. the task fell to Harry Lindley of Kinloch Anderson. D.C. Dalgliesh of Selkirk wove the first piece. Lord Lyon may have recorded the sett in the Lyon Court Books, but this is unconfirmed. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Cleland Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 3210. Earliest known date: pre 2003 The Tartan's sett is based on that of the Douglas as the Clelands were the hereditary foresters to the Douglases. There was a deal of inter-marriage between the Douglases, the Hamiltons and the Clelands. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Thread count
K/4 B56 G14 LN6 R/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Cleland (Name) — ΔT 0.54
- Cleland — ΔT 0.74
- Milling-Kristensen (Personal) — ΔT 0.95
- Spencer (2013) — ΔT 1.17
- Tailor Ishida, Kobe — ΔT 1.25
- Tailor Ishida, Kobe — ΔT 1.26
- Thunderlord (Corporate) — ΔT 1.30
- Norris (1998) — ΔT 1.34
- Haddrell (2013) — ΔT 1.43
- Leblant-Macqueron (Personal) — ΔT 1.47
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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