MacLeod of Lewis
Bands: KYKYR · Stripes: K LY K LY R K LY K LY R
This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 5 band tartan.
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Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2540
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2625
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3555
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1429
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1429
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 864
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
- MacLeod Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1272. Earliest known date: 1829 See illustration in Bain where red is 4 threads. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder in a letter to Sir Walter Scott in 1829 wrote, MacLeod has got a sketch of this splendid tartan, "three black stryps upon ain yellow fylde," See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
- MacLeod of Lewis
- MacLeod of Lewis (Vestiarium Scoticum)
Thread count
DR/1 LG12 K8 LG1 K/8
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #AA0000 #AA0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.07 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| LG | #AAAA00 #AAAA00 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.13 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacLeod of Lewis — ΔT 0.42
- MacLeod of Lewis (Vestiarium Scoticum) — ΔT 1.13
- MacArthur — ΔT 1.21
- MacArthur-Fox — ΔT 1.27
- Gunn — ΔT 1.38
- Wallace, hunting — ΔT 1.39
- Barclay Dress — ΔT 1.43
- Robert Gordon University — ΔT 1.49
- Wallace Htg (Clan) — ΔT 1.50
- MacArthur — 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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