MacDuff

Bands: RBKGRKGRKRKRGKBR · Stripes: R T K G R K G R K R K R G K T R R T K G R K G R K R K R G K T R

This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 16 band tartan.

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Provenance

James Logan recorded the MacDuff sett in 1831, on page 405 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 · 3 azure · 4 black · 6½ green · 3½ red · 1 black · 3½ red · 1 black · 3½ red · 6½ green · 4 black · 3½ red · 6½ green · 4 black · 3 azure · 8 red

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/32 A24 K32 G52 R28 K8 R28 K8 R28 G52 K32 R28 G52 K32 A24 R/64. 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 MacDuff name adjusted Logan's counts: MacDuff; MacDuff #2; MacDuff #3; MacDuff #4. Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

R/64 B24 K32 G52 R28 K32 G52 R28 K8 R28 K8 R28 G52 K32 B24 R/32

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. Grant of Monymusk — ΔT 1.10
2. Grant of Monymusk — ΔT 1.13
3. Murray of Atholl, Red Dress — ΔT 1.27
4. Londonderry Irish County Tartan Tartan Number: 2279. Earliest known date: 1995 One of a series of Irish District tartans designed by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar, with colours reminiscent of the Country with soft warm colours dominating. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.34
5. Stewart/Stuart C18th - Cf 1314 & 4454 — ΔT 1.42
6. Delanghe, Ruben (Personal) — ΔT 1.46
7. Unidentified Plaid 16 — ΔT 1.49
8. Grant of Ballindalloch Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 2149. Earliest known date: 1993 Grant of Ballindalloch tartan was designed during the refurbishment of Ballindalloch Castle. It is based on the Grant tartan recorded by Logan in 1831. The first samples produced by Johnstons of Elgin were woven in 'Antique' colours. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.52
9. Grant of Ballindalloch — ΔT 1.54
10. Franklin (District) — ΔT 1.61

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/s16/r16t6k8g13r7k8g13r7k2r7k2r7g13k8t6r8~x4/