MacRae Hunting (Wilsons)
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 GKGRGKBKWKBKGKR.
Part of the MacRae Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2746
Provenance
Earliest known date: early 19th C Wilson's specimen of this sett is housed at the Smith Institute in Stirling.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1820 — MacRae Hunting (Wilsons) (register-of-tartans, record)
Wilson specimen in Smith Institute, Stirling. This pattern is of similar structure to the Black Watch & MacKenzie and differs from the latter least. Blue and green have become transposed and the twin lines nearest the edge of the green ground have changed from black to crimson. It is understandable that a MacRae tartan might show a similarity to a MacKenzie - generations of them acted as MacKenzie's 'shirt of mail' guarding for them their castle of Eilein Donan and taking part in most of their conflicts. The similarity, however, is more likely to be coincidental. The major weavers seem to use this when they produce MacRae Hunting in old or muted colours but when the produce it in modern colours they all delete the black guards on the white. - undated — MacRae, hunting (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacRae Hunting Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 1820 (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: 2746
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 800
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 800
Thread count
G/52 K8 G12 R8 G12 K52 DB52 K6 W14 K6 DB52 K52 G52 K6 R/14
One full sett is 730 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) |
| 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) |
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/s15/g26k4g6r4g6k26db26k3w7k3db26k26g26k3r7~x2/