Stewart
Bands: WRKRGKWKYKBRBKYKWKGRKRW · Stripes: W R K R G K W K LY K T R T K LY K W K G R K R W W R K R G K W K LY K T R T K LY K W K G R K R W
This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 23 band tartan.
Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/
Provenance
James Logan recorded the Stewart sett in 1831, on page 408 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):
½ white · 1½ red · 1 black · 4 red · 8 green · 1 black · 1 white · 1 black · ½ yellow · 5 black · 3 azure · 16 red · 3 azure · 5 black · ½ yellow · 1 black · 1 white · 1 black · 8 green · 4 red · 1 black · 1½ red · 1 white
In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is W/4 R12 K8 R32 G64 K8 W8 K8 Y4 K40 A24 R128 A24 K40 Y4 K8 W8 K8 G64 R32 K8 R12 W/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 Stewart name adjusted Logan's counts: Stewart; Stewart - Pr Ch Ed - Pendleton; Stewart (King George VI); Stewart (Silk Fragment). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.
Thread count
LN/4 R12 K8 R32 G64 K8 LN8 K8 Y4 K40 B24 R128 B24 K40 Y4 K8 LN8 K8 G64 R32 K8 R12 LN/8
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacLean — ΔT 0.96
- Stewart/Stuart of Galloway (Wilsons) — ΔT 1.05
- Hay or Leith — ΔT 1.08
- Wilson's No.004 — ΔT 1.08
- Hay & Leith - 1800 (Clan) — ΔT 1.09
- Buchanan(Mtd)MacGregor Hastie V. Tartan Tartan Number: 6088. Earliest known date: Threadcount and colours aren't 100% original. Generated manually. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.11
- Stewart/Stuart, Royal (No black line) — ΔT 1.11
- Chattan, Chief — ΔT 1.12
- Wilson's No.017 — ΔT 1.15
- Whitworth — ΔT 1.16
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/s23/w2r3k2r8g16k2w2k2ly1k10t6r32t6k10ly1k2w2k2g16r8k2r3w1~x4/