MacLeod of Lewis (Vestiarium Scoticum)

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Bands: KYKYR · Stripes: K LY K LY R K LY K LY R

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2640

Attestations

This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

Thread count

K/32 Y4 K32 Y48 R/4 Sett

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
K#101010 #101010K #0000000.17
R#C80000 #C80000R #CC00000.01
Y#D8B000 #D8B000Y #F2BF000.06

Sample pattern

Tartan detail

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. MacLeod #3 — ΔT 0.86
  2. MacLeod of Lewis — ΔT 0.90
  3. Unnamed C21st - Fashion — ΔT 1.05
  4. MacLeod of Lewis — ΔT 1.13
  5. Takla Makan #2 (Artefact) — ΔT 1.21
  6. Porter Drinkers', The — ΔT 1.25
  7. 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 — ΔT 1.26
  8. Barclay, dress — ΔT 1.34
  9. Nooten-Boom (Personal) — ΔT 1.38
  10. Barclay Dress — ΔT 1.42

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.

MacLeod #3MacLeod of LewisUnnamed C21st - FashionMacLeod of LewisTakla Makan #2 (Artefact)Porter Drinkers', TheMacLeod 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, 2015Barclay, dressNooten-Boom (Personal)Barclay Dress

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