Diana Hunting Plaid 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 GWGGRGWGWBWR.

Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 12 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1318

Provenance

Earliest known date: 1981 Based on MacNab.

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 1981 — Diana Hunting Plaid Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
  • undated — Diana Hunting Plaid (register-of-tartans, record)
    Registered Design 1981. Sample from Flairtex, Daevel, Ayrshire, On the engagement of Lady Diana Spencer to the Prince of Wales (not taken up.)
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
1981 (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

  1. House of Tartan
    the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DY/92 LB6 DY14 G4 R4 G4 W4 G22 LB12 DB4 LB6 R/4

One full sett is 256 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)

Sample pattern

DY/92 LB6 DY14 G4 R4 G4 W4 G22 LB12 DB4 LB6 R/4 tartan

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.

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