MacAlister of Glenbarr 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 GBGBGGGBGGGGGG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2270
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1984 — MacAlister of Glenbarr Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount taken from swatches supplied by Angus Charles Macalister, 5th Laird of Glenbarr in May 1989. - pre 1984 — MacAlister of Glenbarr Htg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Threadcount taken from swatches supplied by Angus Charles Macalister, 5th Laird of Glenbarr. May 1989. This detail from a letter to Ruaraidh MacLeod from Eugene Planck of Colorado (and TECA) dated 28th june 1989."Glenbarr writes: 'we believe to be a unique color for a tartan which while being very suitable for hunting purposes has had a rather love-hate relationbship with the clan. Rory Macleod of the tartan museum in Comrie has suggested a very light tan/fawn color as perhaps a more acceptable substitute.' This statement indicates the colors are not definitely determined and may change at the next weaving." Sample in STA Johnston Collection. This version of the MacAlister of Glenbarr tartan is the same as the MacGillivray hunting tartan. This sample was taken from a piece woven by Lochcarron Weavers around 1984..
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
- 1984 (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: 2270
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 910
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 910
Thread count
G/40 DY6 G12 DY12 G12 DY16 DB4 DY4 G40 DY4 DB4 DY92 DB6 DY/16
One full sett is 480 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) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s14/g20dy3g6dy6g6dy8db2dy2g20dy2db2dy46db3dy8~x2/