MacLachlan
In pattern RKRKBGBKRKRKR.
This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/
Provenance
James Logan recorded the MacLachlan sett in 1831, on page 406 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):
4 red · 1 black · 1 red · 1 black · 1 red · 8 black · 8 blue · 1½ green · 8 blue · 8 black · 8 red · 1 black · 1 red
In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/32 K8 R8 K8 R8 K64 B64 G12 B64 K64 R64 K8 R/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 MacLachlan name adjusted Logan's counts: MacLachlan; MacLachlan #2; MacLachlan #3; MacLachlan #4. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.
Thread count
R/32 K8 R8 K8 R8 K64 DB64 G12 DB64 K64 R64 K8 R/8
Palette
Each colour and the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) #2C2C80 | B #2A418A |
| G | #006818 oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) #006818 | G #006100 |
| K | #101010 oklch(17.3% 0.000 89.9) #101010 | K #000000 |
| R | #C80000 oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) #C80000 | R #CC0000 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacLachlan — ΔT 0.44
- MacLachlan #2 — ΔT 0.66
- Balmoral Hotel (Corporate) — ΔT 0.78
- Frankfurt & Disttrict P & D (Corpora — ΔT 0.84
- Bonner or Bonnar — ΔT 0.90
- St George's School — ΔT 0.97
- Johnnie Walker (2003) (Corporate) — ΔT 0.98
- Scottish Heritage Preservation (Corp — ΔT 0.98
- MacLachlan #3 — ΔT 1.00
- Caithelyn (Personal) — ΔT 1.06
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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/r8k2r2k2r2k16db16g3db16k16r16k2r2~x4/