MacAlister

Bands: BRWRGGRGGRWRBRWRBRGRBRBRGRBRWRGRBRWRBRGGR · Stripes: DB R W R DG G R G DG R W R DB R W R T R DG R T R T R DG R T R W R DG R T R W R T R DG G R DB R W R DG G R G DG R W R DB R W R T R DG R T R T R DG R T R W R DG R T R W R T R DG G R

This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 41 band tartan.

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the MacAlister sett in 1831, on page 404 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 · ½ light green · 3 dark green · 1 red · 1 azure · 1 red · ½ white · 1 red · 1 azure · 1 red · 3 dark green · ½ red · ¼ white · 6 red · ¼ azure · ½ red · 11 dark green · ½ red · ½ azure · 16 red · ½ azure · ½ red · 11 dark green · ½ red · ½ azure · 5½ red · ½ white · ½ red · 4 blue · ½ red · ½ white · 2½ red · 3 dark green · ½ light green · 2 red · ½ light green · 3 dark green · ¾ red · ½ white · ½ red · 2½ blue

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/32 LG4 DG24 R8 A8 R8 W4 R8 A8 R8 DG24 R4 W2 R48 A2 R4 DG88 R4 A4 R128 A4 R4 DG88 R4 A4 R44 W4 R4 B32 R4 W4 R20 DG24 LG4 R16 LG4 DG24 R6 W4 R4 B/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 MacAlister name adjusted Logan's counts: MacAlister (Logan 1831); MacAlister (Cockburn Collection 1810-20); MacAlister (Smith 1850); MacAlister (Gourlay Steele Collection). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• MacAlister (Logan 1831)

Thread count

DB/20 R4 LN4 R6 DG24 G4 R16 G4 DG24 R20 LN4 R4 DB32 R4 LN4 R44 B4 R4 DG88 R4 B4 R128 B4 R4 DG88 R4 B2 R48 LN2 R4 DG24 R8 B8 R8 LN4 R8 B8 R8 DG24 G4 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. MacAlister (Logan 1831) — ΔT 0.91
2. MacFarhadian Canadian Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 6375. Earliest known date: 2003 During the design process, a version missing the white pivot was woven. A new piece was woven to replace the first but, in old Scots style, the original was put to good use. This tartan, therefore, has two versions extant. Designed to be woven with a 6 inch repeat and 2 thread stripes. Andre said, "I have designed a tartan around some of the major elements found in the tartans of her ancestors: Leitch; Munro; Wilson; Stuart.". See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.21
3. Hebrides, Inner #02 — ΔT 1.24
4. Hay & Leith #2 — ΔT 1.25
5. Whitworth — ΔT 1.29
6. Stuart/Stewart of Ardshiel — ΔT 1.30
7. Unidentified Plaid #8 — ΔT 1.41
8. MacDougall of MacDougall — ΔT 1.57
9. MacDougall - 1970 (H of E) — ΔT 1.61
10. MacFarlane — ΔT 1.62

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.

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