Spens (Lochcarron)

In pattern RWBWGRBBW.

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3858

Attestations

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

• 01/01/2004 — Spens (Lochcarron) (register-of-tartans, record)
• pre 2004 — Spens (Lochcarron) (tartans-authority, record)

Thread count

R/80 W2 DB14 W2 G24 R16 DB12 B4 W/2

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. Drummond of Perth — ΔT 0.94
2. Stewart of Rothesay Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 847. Earliest known date: 1829 See Vestiarium Scoticum entry. Named `Duke of Rothesay' in a drawing by Charles Sobieski (Allen) in the Dick Lauder transcript in the Royal Library in Windsor. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.03
3. Seton Family Tartan Tartan Number: 932. Earliest known date: 1842 Ref: Innes No 102. The Setons had early links with the House of Gordon. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.03
4. Drummond of Perth (Clan) — ΔT 1.09
5. Perthshire or Drummond of Perth — ΔT 1.09
6. Drummond of Perth (Logan) Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1669. Earliest known date: 1831 D.C.Stewart says, "The uncertainty attending the attribution of tartans to clans is well exemplified when we come to the tartans of Drummond, Fraser and Grant. Logan gives a distinctive pattern for each." See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.09
7. Stewart/Stuart of Rothesay (Sobieski) — ΔT 1.12
8. Mair (Personal) — ΔT 1.14
9. Mair Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1406. Earliest known date: 1985 Based on an unnamed tartan from South Uist, the yellow represents the gold and red of the original sett form the colours of the 'Mair' coat of arms registered with Lord Lyon. Head of the family, Duine Usail, Robert George Alexander Mair esq. F.S.A. Scot, Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the son of Alexander Smith Mair who arrived in Australia in 1924 from Govan, Glasgow. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.14
10. Drummond of Perth Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1717. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Nothing See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.15

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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