Campbell of Breadalbane
Bands: BKBKBKYGYKBKB · Stripes: DB K DB K DB K LY G LY K DB K DB DB K DB K DB K LY G LY K DB K DB
This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 13 band tartan.
Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/
Provenance
James Logan recorded the Campbell of Breadalbane sett in 1831, on page 402 of the Table of Clan Tartans in The Scottish Gaël — the earliest systematic published collection of clan setts. Logan gives the stripe widths in eighths of an inch, measured across the cloth and reflected about each end (a half-sett):
2 blue · 1 black · 1 blue · 1 black · 1 blue · 7 black · ½ yellow · 11 green · ½ yellow · 7 black · 6 blue · 1 black · 1 blue
In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is B/16 K8 B8 K8 B8 K56 Y4 G88 Y4 K56 B48 K8 B/8. Logan named his colours rather than dyeing to a standard, so the palette here is the Dictionary's modern reading of his names.
See Logan's Scottish Gaël for the full table and method.
Related setts
Later records of the Campbell of Breadalbane name adjusted Logan's counts: Campbell of Breadalbane; Campbell of Breadalbane #2; Campbell of Breadalbane #3; Campbell of Breadalbane (Military). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DB/16 K8 DB8 K8 DB8 K56 Y4 G88 Y4 K56 DB48 K8 DB/8
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Hope-Vere/Weir #2 — ΔT 0.66
- Scottish Tourist Board (1981) (Corp) — ΔT 0.78
- Riddoch Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 5856. Earliest known date: circa 1992 Designed by Tony Murray for an Albert (Bert) Riddoch of Bearsden, Glasgow as a private and personal tartan initially but it was then changed to usage by anyone of the name. Bert Riddoch (2002) is a private investgator involved in covert drugs investigations and 'highly thought of by the police'. Tartan based on Campbell of Breadalbane. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.85
- Sardar Chadha (Personal) — ΔT 0.89
- Hope-Vere/Weir — ΔT 0.91
- Jedforest — ΔT 0.91
- Hebrides #10 — ΔT 0.95
- Black from Cumnock (Personal) — ΔT 1.06
- Ogilvie of Inverarity (V.S.) — ΔT 1.07
- Gordon #2 — ΔT 1.09
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 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.
ID: /setts/s13/db4k2db2k2db2k14ly1g22ly1k14db12k2db2~x4/