In pattern RBKGKW.

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2697

Thread count

LN/4 K4 G32 K28 B46 R/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. MacPhail Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1367. Earliest known date: 1880 In Clans Originaux as 'Macphail'. with this thread count: R8 B48 K24 G28 K8 LN6. (Does not divide by 4) This sample shown here comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.50
2. MacWilliam Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1417. Earliest known date: pre 1880 Mentioned in the pattern book 'Clans Originaux' produced in Paris in 1880 by J. Claude Fres Et Cie. It is similar in style and colour to the MacKay tartan both from Sutherland in the North of Scotland See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.65
3. MacLeod of Assynt Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1582. Earliest known date: 1906 In a portrait of the 24th chief, John Norman, painted posthumously (perhaps by Julius Jacobson, born 1811) in 1835, John Norman is shown in the costume worn for the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in 1822. The snuff-box may be evidence that the Vestiarium 'loud' design, which is very similar to that of the snuff box, had particular significance for John Norman or his wife, Ann Stephenson. (Ruairidh MacLeod, Tartans of Clan MacLeod, 1990.) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.65
4. Russell or Mitchell or Hunter or Galbraith — ΔT 0.65
5. Corey in Balachuirn — ΔT 0.66
6. MacLeod Small Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 15833. Earliest known date: See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.68
7. MacThomas Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 407. Earliest known date: 1975 Designed by David Thomas - former director of the Strathmore Woollen Co. in Forfar who still (in 2011) weave this tartan. Adopted by Clan Society in 1975, and registered with Lord Lyon in 1979. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.70
8. Paterson Blue (Personal) — ΔT 0.71
9. MacLeod Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1583. Earliest known date: 1831 This design appears in many early collections including Logans 'The Scottish Gael'(1831) and Smibert (1850). The sett has its source in the MacKenzie tartan used in 1777 by John MacKenzie called Lord MacLeod when he raised a regiment called 'Lord MacLeod's Highlanders'. The family claimed to be heirs of the last chief of Lewis, Roderick, who had died in 1595. (Tartans of Clan MacLeod. Rhuairidh MacLeod (1990).) This tartan was approved by Chief Norman Magnus, 26th Chief, in 1910, and has been the usual modern sett since then. The present Chief, John MacLeod, lives in Dunvegan Castle, Skye. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.74
10. MacThomas (Clan) — ΔT 0.74

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