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
Bands: RRGRGRBRGRGRR · Stripes: R R G R G R DP R G R G R R R R G R G R DP R G R G R R
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 13 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1636
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DO/4 R10 G7 R4 G85 R4 P21 R4 G7 R70 G7 R10 DO/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO | #D05054 #D05054 | R #CC0000 | 0.09 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| P | #780078 #780078 | B #2A418A | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Crieff — ΔT 0.45
- Stewart of Appin - 1906 — ΔT 0.70
- MacLintock — ΔT 0.83
- Unidentified, coat — ΔT 0.88
- MacLintock - 1880 (Clan) — ΔT 0.89
- Unidentified Coat — ΔT 0.92
- MacDonald of Glenaladale — ΔT 0.93
- Hayes (Fashion) — ΔT 0.94
- Drummond — ΔT 1.01
- Unidentified Cant #12 — ΔT 1.02
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/r4r10g7r70g7r4dp21r4g85r4g7r10r4/