Menzies
Bands: GWBRBWGR · Stripes: G W T R T W G R G W T R T W G R
This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/
Provenance
James Logan recorded the Menzies sett in 1831, on page 407 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):
12 red · 9 green · 1 white · 3 azure · 24 red · 3 azure · 1 white · 9 green
In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is R/96 G72 W8 A24 R192 A24 W8 G/72. 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 Menzies name adjusted Logan's counts: Menzies; Menzies #2; Menzies #3; Menzies (1815). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.
Thread count
G/72 LN8 B24 R192 B24 LN8 G72 R/96
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Chisholm, The — ΔT 0.85
- Burnett of Leys Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2355. Earliest known date: Unknown In Scottish Tartan Society Files but source unknown. At present woven by Lochcarron. The entry in the Lyon Court Books does not define the pattern. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.85
- Chisholm, The (MacGregor-Hastie) — ΔT 0.87
- Buccleuch — ΔT 0.90
- Cumming/Comyn — ΔT 0.92
- Baluch Regiment (Military) — ΔT 0.95
- MacDonell of Keppoch — ΔT 0.97
- Scott - 1842 (Clan) — ΔT 0.97
- Burnett — ΔT 0.98
- Spens — ΔT 0.99
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/s8/r12g9w1t3r24t3w1g9~x8/