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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Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1166
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1510
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1758
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2307
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2349
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2540
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2582
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2585
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2625
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2666
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2730
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2862
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3072
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3555
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3808
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4925
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 696
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 697
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 982
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1277
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1429
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 218
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 977
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1010
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1042
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 127
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1277
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1399
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1429
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1585
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1593
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3061
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 441
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 737
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 858
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 864
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 873
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 897
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 977
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 978
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
K/16 Y2 K16 Y24 R/2
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #C8C800 #C8C800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.07 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacLeod of Lewis — ΔT 0.42
- MacLeod of Lewis (Vestiarium Scoticum) — ΔT 0.90
- Barclay Dress — ΔT 1.28
- MacArthur-Fox — ΔT 1.38
- MacLeod #3 — ΔT 1.39
- MacArthur — ΔT 1.47
- Robert Gordon University — ΔT 1.52
- Barclay Dress — ΔT 1.54
- Wallace, hunting — ΔT 1.56
- Takla Makan #2 (Artefact) — ΔT 1.57
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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