Scott, hunting special

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 GGWGBGGGBGGWGG.

Part of the Scott Hunting special tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from weddslist. It is a 14 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Weddslist
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/weddslist/data.csv
data date
2016-11-17 (dataset default)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Weddslist
    the living privately compiled reference
  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

Thread count

G/8 DG2 W2 DG6 Y2 DB14 G4 DG16 G16 B2 G5 W2 G4 DG/7

One full sett is 165 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
B#466CC8 #466CC8oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

G/8 DG2 W2 DG6 Y2 DB14 G4 DG16 G16 B2 G5 W2 G4 DG/7 tartan

Compared to the master

This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.

Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.30 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).

this sett (top) woven against the master sett (bottom) this sett master sett ★
One weave of this sett against the master sett ★, split on the diagonal: a shared proportion runs seamlessly across it with only the shades shifting; a different proportion breaks on it.

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.

Scott Hunting specialLimerick Irish County TartanFirst Command Fin. Planning (Corp)Kinloch Anderson Heather (Corporate)Malone, Keagan Allen (Personal)Forbes of Druminnor Artifact TartanState Seal of Montana (Fashion)Limerick, CountyHash House Harriers HuntingHash House Harriers Hunting (Corp)groundcomplexity

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