Farquharson of Baldovie
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern RBKBKBKGYGKBKR.
Part of the Farquharson of Baldovie tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from peter-1856. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link /posts/baronage-angus-mearns/
Provenance
David MacGregor Peter recorded the tartan of Farquharson of Baldovie in 1856, on page 97 of The Baronage of Angus and Mearns — a genealogy of the families of Angus and the Mearns whose entries carry their tartans in Logan's method: stripe depths in eighths of an inch, measured across the cloth and reflected about each end (a half-sett):
½ red · 2 blue · ½ black · ½ blue · ½ black · ½ blue · 4 black · 4 green · 1 yellow · 4 green · 4 black · 4 blue · ½ black · 1 red
Rendered at 8 threads to the eighth-inch that is R/4 B16 K4 B4 K4 B4 K32 G32 Y8 G32 K32 B32 K4 R/8 — the eighths are the captured data, and the threadcount is derived from them at that stated factor (the same display calibration as Logan 1831, whose method the book borrows). Peter named his colours rather than dyeing to a standard, so the palette here is the Dictionary's modern reading of his names.
The entry as printed: page 97 of the first edition, on the Internet Archive.
See The Baronage of Angus and Mearns for the book, its method and every entry.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Peter, The Baronage of Angus and Mearns (1856)
- data captured from
- https://archive.org/details/baronageofangusm00peteuoft
- data date
- 1856 (this record)
- licence
- Public domain
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- David MacGregor Peter, The Baronage of Angus and Mearns (first edition) 1856 · Public domain
38 TARTAN entries among the genealogies of 360 Angus and Mearns families, in Logan's eighths-of-an-inch method - Internet Archive scans
three digitised copies: University of Toronto (500 ppi, the transcription's primary), Allen County Public Library, and Google/Oxford — each OCR layer garbles the fraction glyphs differently, so all three were kept as a per-glyph vote, the 500 ppi page image ruling - Tartan Dictionary transcription — The Baronage of Angus and Mearns 2026-07 · CC BY-SA 4.0
by-eye transcription of the 38 entries from 200-400 dpi page renders of the 500 ppi scan — depths in eighths of an inch, rendered at 8 threads per eighth (the Logan display calibration); method and entry table in the linked post - this dictionary
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Thread count
R/8 K4 DB32 K32 DG32 LY8 DG32 K32 DB4 K4 DB4 K4 DB16 R/4
One full sett is 420 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13656 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s14/r2k1db8k8dg8ly2dg8k8db1k1db1k1db4r1~x4/