Douglas

In pattern WBGBKBGBW.

This was sourced from logan-1831. It is a 9 stripe tartan.

Original link /posts/logans-scottish-gael/

Provenance

James Logan recorded the Douglas sett in 1831, on page 403 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):

¼ white · 4 blue · 4 green · 1 azure · 1 black · 1 azure · 4 green · 4 blue · ½ white

In threads (at 8 to the eighth-inch) that is W/2 B32 G32 A8 K8 A8 G32 B32 W/4. 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 Douglas name adjusted Logan's counts: Douglas (alternative threadcount); Douglas, Grey (Vestiarium Scoticum); Douglas (WCWM); Douglas Ancient Dress (WCWM). Compare their thread counts with Logan's above.

Thread count

LN/4 DB32 G32 B8 K8 B8 G32 DB32 LN/2

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. MacMillan Hunting — ΔT 0.74
2. Huntly Gordon Fancy Tartan Tartan Number: 3215. Earliest known date: 2001 Unknown until House of Edgar published their own Old and Rare. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.89
3. Berkshire #1 (District) — ΔT 0.93
4. Ednie (Personal) — ΔT 0.97
5. Dove (Personal) — ΔT 1.02
6. MacThomas (Clan) — ΔT 1.06
7. MacFadzean/MacPhedran — ΔT 1.08
8. MacPhail Hunting Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2158. Earliest known date: 1994 A modern interpretation of the MacPhail tartan in hunting colours produced for the whisky merchants, Gordon and MacPhail, by the weaving firm, Johnstons of Elgin. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.10
9. MacThomas Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 407. Earliest known date: 1975 Designed by David Thomas - former director of the Strathmore Woollen Co. in Forfar who still (in 2011) weave this tartan. Adopted by Clan Society in 1975, and registered with Lord Lyon in 1979. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.12
10. MacWilliam — ΔT 1.13

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 14299 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/s9/w2db16g16t4k4t4g16db16w1~x2/