Walker Hunting
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 BGBGBGBGKGKGKGBGBGBGBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4477
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1992 — Walker Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Swatch received from R.W.Hawks via Phil Smith, January 1992. Hawks advises Oct. 1993 he is agreeable for any Walkers to use these tartans. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. October 2005: Threadcount altered slightly to agree with printed details supplied by Robert W Hawks at Stone Mountian Games, Georgia, 2005. Woven Sample. - 1992 — Walker Hunting (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Swatch received from R.W.Hawks via Phil Smith, January 1992. Hawks advises Oct. 1993 he is agreeable for any Walkers to use these tartans. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Oct 2005: Threadcount altered slightly to agree with printed details supplied by Robert W Hawks at Stone Mountian Games, Georgia, 2005. Woven Sample
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1992 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 4477
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2069
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2069
Thread count
R/8 DB4 G14 DB30 G6 DB6 G6 DB14 G56 K14 G12 K4 G12 K14 G56 DB14 G6 DB6 G6 DB30 G14 DB/4
One full sett is 660 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) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s12/r4db2g7db15g3db3g3db7g28k7g6k2~x2/