Logan, The Scottish Gaël (1831)

March 18, 2023 1 min 11 s

James Logan's 1831 survey of clan tartans — the earliest systematic published record of setts, recorded as stripe widths in eighths of an inch. 55 setts transcribed by hand from the first edition and converted to threads at 8 per eighth-inch. As the oldest source it owns the cloth it shares with later records; related tartans that adjusted Logan's counts are noted on each sett.

James Logan's 1831 Table of Clan Tartans is the earliest systematic published record of clan setts. Because it is the oldest source, a Logan record owns any cloth it shares with later records, and each Logan sett page carries his original stripe table in eighths of an inch with links to the modern tartans that adjusted his counts. See the post Logan's Scottish Gaël for the full story.

Provenance


Code	`logan-1831`
Status	active — contributes data to the build
Kind	tartan setts (thread counts)
Records	55
Source	https://archive.org/details/scotishgalorcel02logagoog
Attribution	James Logan, The Scottish Gaël, 1831 (public domain); transcription by the Tartan Dictionary
Licence	Public domain

Published 1831; out of copyright everywhere. Transcription and conversion CC BY-SA 4.0 (Tartan Dictionary).

Tartans from this source

The 55 tartans this source attests, each linking to its sett page.