Cameron Old Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1517. Earliest known date: 0 A document written in Latin of 1689 descibes the Cameron men from Lochaber as being clad in blue and yellow when they followed their great Chief, Sir Ewan Cameron, to battle and victory at Killiecrankie. This new design was evolved in the 1940s by J G MacKay of Portree and first put on show at the Cameron Gathering at Achnacarry in 1956. The original Cameron first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842). See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern RGRGRYR.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1517
Thread count
R/6 G16 R12 G16 R6 Y3 R/58
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Cameron, Ancient — ΔT 0.28
- Cameron Ancient — ΔT 0.60
- MacKintosh, Red — ΔT 0.65
- Kyle Green (Name) — ΔT 1.16
- MacDonell of Keppoch — ΔT 1.19
- MacKintosh #3 — ΔT 1.21
- MacDonell of Keppoch Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1401. Earliest known date: 1893 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893), contains a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity. Many of the illustrated tartans owe their present day popularity to the publication of this work. The author was D. W. Stewart. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.21
- MacKintosh 2 — ΔT 1.21
- Crawford — ΔT 1.25
- Cameron (Clan) — ΔT 1.30
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.
ID: /setts/s7/r58y3r6g16r12g16r6-g006818-rc80000-ye8c000/