Bands: KGKRBW · Stripes: K G K R DB W K G K R DB W

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5127

Attestations

This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1816 — Galbraith (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1816 — Galbraith (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
• 1900 — Hunter (Galbraith etc) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 5127
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3176

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• Mitchell Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2142. Earliest known date: 1816-20 Named in honour of General Billy Mitchell when it was adopted as the tartan of the United States Air Force pipe band. The sett is also known as Russell, Hunter and Galbraith. The earliest reference to the tartan is in the collection of the Highland Society of London where it is labelled Galbraith. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
• Russell (Clan)
• Russell, or Mitchell or Hunter or Galbraith

Thread count

K/4 G34 K32 R4 DB34 W/4

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Sample pattern

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Leslie Hunting — ΔT 0.41
2. Colquhoun Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 274. Earliest known date: 1810-15 The Bonnie Banks and Braes of Loch Lomand were the setting for the interesting and sometimes violent history of the Colquhouns of Luss. Their tartan is well documented, appearing in the earliest collections, and certified by the Chief, with his seal and signature, in the archives of the Highland Society of London. (c.1816). The Clan tartan, in its present form, was woven by Wilson's of Bannockburn at the beginning of the 19th century and recorded in the firms pattern books dated 1819. Wilson often used purple in place of blue and produced proportionately equivalent patterns in different weights of cloth. Logan recorded a similar sett in 1831. The Vestiarium Scoticum shows a pattern with the white stripe next to the blue but this is regarded as an error. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.43
3. Mitchell (Clan) — ΔT 0.52
4. Greenock — ΔT 0.57
5. Hogarth of Firhill (Clan) — ΔT 0.58
6. Fruin Colquhoun (Commemorative?) — ΔT 0.59
7. Campbell of Cawdor Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 2. Earliest known date: 1798 Campbell of Cawdor is one of Wilson's variations based on the military sett. It was originally a numbered pattern, acquiring the name 'Argyle' in 1798 and 'Argylle' in 1819. It is not until W. and A. Smith's work of 1850 that the full title is given, 'Campbell of Cawdor'. This sett is authorized by the present Clan Chief, MacCailien Mor. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.64
8. Argyll — ΔT 0.66
9. Campbell of Cawdor — ΔT 0.66
10. MacLean, Donald (Personal) — ΔT 0.68

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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