Bruce Old

In pattern GRGRBRBRBRGRBR.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=405

Also known as

This cloth is also recorded under:

• Bruce, Old

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 405
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 876
• Scottish Tartans World Register: 876

Thread count

R/45 B4 R4 G48 R4 B4 R4 B15 R4 B4 R40 G4 R4 G/30

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. Bruce Old Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 876. Earliest known date: 1797 An order dated 1797 in the Wilson's of Bannockburn papers requests '50 Ells Bruce sett tartan'. As no distinction is made between 'old' and 'new' we assume that the 'new' sett, which has much in common with this one, had not been introduced. (Reduced in proportion for illustration.) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.48
2. Robertson 1819 — ΔT 0.51
3. Robertson, Curtain — ΔT 0.60
4. Robertson 3 — ΔT 0.63
5. Robertson #3 — ΔT 0.69
6. Robertson Curtain — ΔT 0.74
7. Bruce, Old — ΔT 0.78
8. Robertson 1 — ΔT 0.78
9. Robertson #5 — ΔT 0.89
10. Stewart of Urrard (Clan?) — ΔT 0.90

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/s14/r45db4r4dg48r4db4r4db15r4db4r40dg4r4dg30/