Grant Hunting or Black Watch

Bands: BKBKBKGKGKBKB · Stripes: DB K DB K DB K G K G K DB K DB DB K DB K DB K G K G K DB K DB

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=277

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1725 — Grant Hunting or Black Watch (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1725 — Black Watch (Military) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 277
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 207
• Scottish Tartans World Register: 207

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• 93rd Regiment (Military)
• Black Watch, A&S Highlanders
• Campbell
• Campbell Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1. Earliest known date: 1725 The tartan appointed for the Highland Companies in 1725 and later for the Black Watch in 1739 may in fact have been worn by the Campbells at an earlier date. There is a strong possibility that many others wore the sett or something similar before the idea of distinctive clan tartans took hold. This tartan is worn by the present Duke of Argyll, who has approved the sett. The Black Watch is usually dyed in darker shades. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

Thread count

DB/44 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K32 G32 K4 G32 K32 DB32 K4 DB/4

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. Royal Regiment of Scotland (Mltry) — ΔT 0.70
2. Montmorency — ΔT 0.75
3. Tyneside Scottish District Tartan Tartan Number: 593. Earliest known date: 1924 Tyneside Scottish was originally intended to be a Regimental tartan but War Office (Ministry of Defence) declined to sanction the proposal. The tartan has come into use as a District tartan in much the same way as the Sutherland District tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.81
4. Clergy #2 — ΔT 0.98
5. Herron of Ulster (Personal) — ΔT 1.13
6. Forbes #2 — ΔT 1.15
7. Montmorency Family Tartan Tartan Number: 103. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Canadian fancy. Presented by Mrs K Sinclair See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.16
8. 77th Regiment — ΔT 1.17
9. 5th Royal Scots of Canada (Military) — ΔT 1.17
10. Stephenson Hunting — ΔT 1.19

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.

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