Grant

Bands: RBRBRBRBRGRGRBRBRGRGRBRBRBRBR · Stripes: R DB R DB R T R DB R G R G R DB R DB R G R G R DB R T R DB R DB R R DB R DB R T R DB R G R G R DB R DB R G R G R DB R T R DB R DB R

This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 29 band tartan.

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the Grant sett in 1831, on page 403 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):

1 red · ¼ blue · ½ red · ½ blue · 18 red · ¼ azure · ½ red · 5 blue · 1 red · ¼ green · 1 red · 21 green · ¼ red · ¼ blue · 2½ red · ½ blue · ¼ red · 21 green · 1 red · ¼ green · 1 red · 5 blue · ¼ red · ¼ azure · 18 red · ¼ blue · ¼ red · ¼ blue · 2½ red

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/8 B2 R4 B4 R144 A2 R4 B40 R8 G2 R8 G168 R2 B2 R20 B4 R2 G168 R8 G2 R8 B40 R2 A2 R144 B2 R2 B2 R/20. 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 Grant name adjusted Logan's counts: Grant Hunting or Black Watch; Grant; Grant, Piper to the Laird of; Grant (Wilson's 1819 Key Pattern Book). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

R/8 DB2 R4 DB4 R144 B2 R4 DB40 R8 G2 R8 G168 R2 DB2 R20 DB4 R2 G168 R8 G2 R8 DB40 R2 B2 R144 DB2 R2 DB2 R/20

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. Stewart/Stuart of Appin #2 — ΔT 1.39
2. Bruce - 1819 (New) — ΔT 1.44
3. Unidentified Plaid 3 — ΔT 1.45
4. All Irish Red Irish District Tartan Tartan Number: 4067. Earliest known date: 1997 Part of a collection produced by Lochcarron in 1997 to acknowledge the early historical and cultural links between the Scots and Irish. Lochcarron sample. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.46
5. MacGillivray — ΔT 1.52
6. Not Specified — ΔT 1.62
7. Drummond of Megginch - 2023 BertieLexa — ΔT 1.66
8. MacDougall — ΔT 1.67
9. Newfoundland (CIDD 28098) — ΔT 1.67
10. Stuart/Stewart of Ardshiel — ΔT 1.68

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/s29/r10db1r1db1r72t1r1db20r4g1r4g84r1db2r10db1r1g84r4g1r4db20r2t1r72db2r2db1r4~x2/