Chisholm Hunting (HSL) Clan Tartan
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 RGBGBGBRWR.
Part of the Chisholm Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1457
Provenance
Earliest known date: c.1815 Possibly the true source of the Vestiarium Scoticum sett with crimson changed to red.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- c.1815 — Chisholm Hunting (HSL) Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Chisholm Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Possibly the true source of the Vestiarium Scoticum 1829-1842 sett with crimson changed to red. Highland Society of London collection is found in the National Museum, Edinburgh. - undated — Chisholm, hunting (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- c.1815 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 640
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1457
Thread count
R/14 W4 R64 DB14 G6 DB4 G6 DB4 G32 R/6
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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 13621 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.
ID: /variants/s10/r7w2r32db7g3db2g3db2g16r3~x2/