Maitland Chief

In pattern GBGKGYBYR.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2790

Attestations

This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1953 — Maitland Chief (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1953 — Maitland (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
• undated — Maitland Chiefs own Tartan Tartan Number: 714. Earliest known date: 1960 This sett shows the increased proportions of green and blue of the manufactured tartan. The Lyon Court Book (entry number 10) gives the largest green 18 threads and the blue only 16. The entry was recorded on the 18th August 1960 and is restricted for the use of the chief. The Maitlands are a Lowland family, Dukes of Lauderdale and the Hereditary Saltire Banner Bearers of Scotland. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)

Thread count

G/10 DB48 G14 K20 G48 Y4 DB4 Y4 R/4

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Fraser Gathering Hunting Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 2363. Earliest known date: 1997 Unknown until House of Edgar published their own Old and Rare. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.31
2. Snodgrass Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1216. Earliest known date: 1978 Designed for the Snodgrass Clan Association. It is based on the Cunningham tartan, and the colours chosen were, Black, Green and Gold - of the Snodgrass Coat of Arms, Green - for the 'grasy place' (sic) alluded to in the name, and Blue - representing the traditional Highland 'Blue Bonnet'. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.66
3. Semple Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2292. Earliest known date: 1996 Designed by Iain Semple of Tamworth for anyone of the name. Very similar design to Sempill # 2420. See the Semple Family website (www.semple.org). Clan/Family Chief is Lord Semple who lives in Leith, Edinburgh. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.69
4. Fraser Gathering, Green (1997) — ΔT 0.72
5. Scottish Rugby Union (City of Nagasaki) — ΔT 0.73
6. Scottish Chamber Orchestra, The — ΔT 0.75
7. Semple (Name) — ΔT 0.78
8. Snodgrass — ΔT 0.78
9. Jones Htg (Name) — ΔT 0.80
10. Tennessee — ΔT 0.81

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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