Bruce 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 GKGRGRGRGRGKW.
Part of the Bruce Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=402
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1939 A sample in the Coulson Bonner collection is labelled 'Earl of Elgin'. It is believed to have been a special order from Colonel Bruce, manufactured by Peter Anderson of Galashiels around 1939. The hunting sett retains the black guards of the chiefly 'Bruce' sett known to the Elgin family for generations.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1939 — Bruce Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
In this sett, the red and green of the normal Bruce sett are reversed. The threadcount was taken by the Scottish Tartans Society from a Coulson Bonner sample labelled 'Earl of Elgin', believed to have been a special order from Colonel Bruce and woven by Peter Anderson of Galashiels in about 1939. This hunting sett retains the black guards for the white and yellow of the Bruce sett. - 1939 — Bruce Hunting Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Bruce, hunting (weddslist, record)
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
- 1939 (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: 402
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1816
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1816
Thread count
Y/6 K2 G38 R8 G6 R22 G10 R22 G6 R8 G38 K2 W/6
One full sett is 336 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s13/y3k1g19r4g3r11g5r11g3r4g19k1w3~x2/