Sources on Tartan Dictionaryhttps://www.tartandictionary.org/tags/sources/Recent content in Sources on Tartan DictionaryHugoenWed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Logan's Scottish Gaël — the first published tartanshttps://www.tartandictionary.org/posts/logans-scottish-gael/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tartandictionary.org/posts/logans-scottish-gael/<p>In 1831 James Logan published <em>The Scotish Gaël; or, Celtic Manners, as Preserved Among the Highlanders</em> — two volumes of antiquarian sweep covering arms, dress, music and language. Tucked into the appendix of volume II is something genuinely new: a <strong>Table of Clan Tartans</strong>, the first time the setts of tartans had ever been published. Fifty-four patterns, each recorded stripe by stripe.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p> <p><img src="TablePage402.png" alt="The first page of Logan's table" title="Logan's Table of Clan Tartans, vol. II p. 402"></p>