Sinclair
Bands: RBWKGR · Stripes: R T W K G R R T W K G R
This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/
Provenance
James Logan recorded the Sinclair sett in 1831, on page 408 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):
9 red · 10 green · 2½ black · ½ white · 4 azure · 18 red
In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/72 G80 K20 W4 A32 R/144. 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 Sinclair name adjusted Logan's counts: Sinclair (Logan); Sinclair; Sinclair Dress (Dance); Sinclair Green (Personal). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
R/144 B32 LN4 K20 G80 R/72
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.
- Kinnaird (Name) — ΔT 0.71
- Sinclair — ΔT 0.94
- Sinclair (Logan) — ΔT 0.96
- MacPhail (Blue Bands) — ΔT 1.01
- Sinclair Dress — ΔT 1.11
- MacPhail — ΔT 1.27
- Sturrock, Blue/Black (Clan) — ΔT 1.31
- MacGregor #4 — ΔT 1.32
- Menzies — ΔT 1.36
- Greig (Personal) — ΔT 1.37
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/s6/r36t8w1k5g20r18~x4/