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
In pattern RKGKBKY.
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=1583
Thread count
R/6 K4 G30 K20 DB40 K4 Y/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| 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.
- MacLeod Small Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 15833. Earliest known date: See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.21
- 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 0.44
- 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 0.52
- Curry (Personal) — ΔT 0.54
- Greenock — ΔT 0.55
- Genet, Citizen (Commem) — ΔT 0.56
- Mantle (Personal) — ΔT 0.57
- Scotch House 2000 Original — ΔT 0.57
- 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 0.59
- Fruin Colquhoun (Commemorative?) — ΔT 0.64
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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