Perthshire or Drummond District Tartan Tartan Number: 1670. Earliest known date: c.1819 Perthshire is known as the gateway to the Highlands. The Perthshire tartan is similar to a the Drummond sett, the tartan of a Drummond clan who had extensive lands in the district. The first record of this tartan is in the early nineteenth century account book of Wilson's of Bannockburn where it is referred to as the 'Perthshire Rock and Wheel' being an early type of soft tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

In pattern RWBYGRBBW.

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

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1670

Thread count

LN/4 DB6 P10 R18 G42 Y4 P10 LN4 R/82

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. Perthshire, or Drummond — ΔT 0.28
2. MacArthur-Fox Dress — ΔT 0.71
3. MacArthur-Fox Dress (Personal) — ΔT 0.75
4. Drummond Old Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1716. Earliest known date: c.1930 MacGregor-Hasties collection formed the basis of the Scottish Tartans Society collection. Unfortunately many samples were neither dated or sourced. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.77
5. Lambert (Front Royal) Greer — ΔT 0.79
6. Lambert Greer (Personal) — ΔT 0.80
7. Drummond Ancient — ΔT 0.83
8. Drummond, (Fingask) — ΔT 0.83
9. Drummond of Perth Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1715. Earliest known date: (1745) Drummonds sometimes wore the tartan now known as Grant, and the Drummonds of Strathallen wore the Ogilvie as their tartan. This pattern is the Drummond of Perth, believed to have been worn by Bonnie Prince Charlie as a cloak during the rebellion. The overall appearance of the tartan links it to Perthshire but closer inspection reveals elements of the Royal Stewart. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.86
10. Follower's Plaid Artifact Tartan Tartan Number: 1376. Earliest known date: 1745 Red pivot = 192 threads in original. W & Y are silk. Sindex title See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.93

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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