Urquhart - 1842 (Clan)

In pattern BWBKBKBKGKGR.

This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripes tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/623/

Thread count

DB/8 LN4 DB48 K6 DB6 K6 DB16 K48 G96 K6 G6 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. Urquhart White Line Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 623. Earliest known date: 1842 Sample in Paton's collection. The Setts No: 249. Innes No 110. W & A K Johnston, 1906 It is interesting to note that much of the forged sixteenth century manuscript on which the Vestiarium Scoticum was based was supposedly transcribed by Sir Richard Urquhart in 1721. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.28
2. Ogilvie of Inverarity (V.S.) — ΔT 0.62
3. Sutherland Old Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 930. Earliest known date: 1842 (1618) The earlier date refers to a letter from Gordon Earl of Sutherland instructing Murray of Dulrossie to 'remove the red and white lines from the plaids of the men so as to bring their dress into harmony with that of the other Septs.' This sett is also recorded by Smibert in 1850. Smiberts work lends greater authority to the accuracy of the tartan. Worn by the City of Nunawading Highland pipe band (Australia) (Strathallan 1994) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.78
4. Sinclair-Brown (Personal) — ΔT 0.80
5. Blairlogie or Blair Athol — ΔT 0.80
6. Lochaber District Tartan Tartan Number: 685. Earliest known date: pre 1800 An "Old superfine tartan sett" from Wilson's Key pattern book. Possibly a Fencibles tartan. Fencibles were a kind of Home Guard formed at the time of the Napoleonic Invasion threat. It is generally accepted as a district tartan and known to have existed as early as 1797. One of the original specimens of this tartan can be found in the West Highland Museum in Fort William. 1819 Key Pattern Book. One of the Strathmore Wilsons range. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.86
7. Sutherland (Clan) — ΔT 0.88
8. Lochaber - 1819 (District) — ΔT 0.98
9. Baron of Greencastle Htg (Personal) — ΔT 1.00
10. Ontario (Official) — ΔT 1.03

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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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