In pattern GRGRGR.

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2732

Attestations

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

• 01/01/1886 — MacQuarrie #5 (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1886 — MacQuarrie - 1886 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)

Thread count

G/48 R16 G4 R4 G4 R/64

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. MacQuarrie — ΔT 0.42
2. MacQuarrie 7 — ΔT 0.64
3. MacQuarrie Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 892. Earliest known date: 1886 J. Grant's version of the MacQuarrie tartan is the one used today and illustrated in Bain's pocketbook. The earliest reference to a related MacQuarrie sett appears in the Cockburn Collection (c.1815). D C Stewart says, "The MacQuarrie tartan now most often used is related to the red MacDonald...". MacQuarrie's were followers of the Lords of the Isles and held lands on the Isle of Mull. The chiefship today is vacant. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.94
4. Cameron (Clan) — ΔT 0.94
5. Cameron Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1538. Earliest known date: 1842 First illustrated in the 'Vestiarium Scoticum' this sett is known as the Cameron Clan tartan. It may be derived from the tartan worn by the MacFees who also had a close association with Lochaber. The sett was recorded by Lord Lyon in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in 1947. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.94
6. MacQuarie — ΔT 1.00
7. Cameron — ΔT 1.02
8. Cameron — ΔT 1.09
9. Crawford — ΔT 1.13
10. Cameron Clan D — ΔT 1.14

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.

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