Crieff
In pattern RRGRGRBRGRGRR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=803
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1797 — Crieff (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1797 — Crieff (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
R/2 Ra6 G4 Ra2 G85 Ra2 P21 Ra2 G4 Ra70 G4 Ra6 R/2
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| P | #780078 #780078 | B #2C4084 | 0.16 |
| R | #B43C50 #B43C50 | R #C80000 | 0.08 |
| Ra | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Drummond of Megginch - 1849 Kilt (faded) — ΔT 0.74
- Bruce - 1819 (New) — ΔT 0.75
- Connacht — ΔT 1.00
- Unidentified Cant #12 — ΔT 1.04
- Gudbrandsdalen Mannsdrakt District Tartan Tartan Number: 2081. Earliest known date: 18th Century Sample is an off cut of hard tartan woven in plain weave - from fabric used to make a true copy of the original jacket in the possession of Bjornsgaard Farm, Dovre, Norway. Part of the collection of Norwegian district tartans presented to the Scottish Tartans Society by Erik Paulsen in 1992. Scottish-Norwegian connections are explored in a research report available from the Society. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.08
- MacDonell of Keppoch — ΔT 1.09
- Hay — ΔT 1.09
- Strang (Personal) — ΔT 1.09
- Crieff District Tartan Tartan Number: 1636. Earliest known date: 1793 Wilson's accounts of 1793 mention the Crieff tartan with no details. A manuscript dated 1800 gives details of colour but it is not until the publication of the Key Pattern Book of 1819 that this sett is revealed in full. Crieff in Perthshire was the most famous of the cattle drovers 'trysts' prior to 1700. It is a very large sett which has been proportionately reduced for this illustration. The full threadcount: Light Red 4, Red 12, Green 8, R 140, G 8, R 4, Purple 42, R 4, G 170, R 4, G 8, R 12, LR 4. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.14
- Stewart of Appin 4 — ΔT 1.14
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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