MacColl 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 RRGRGRRWRBRWRRBRRR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2319
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1950 — MacColl Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
A sample of this tartan is contained in the MacGregor-Hastie collection, which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. This sample dates from between 1930 and 1950. - pre 1950 — MacColl - 1950 (Htg) (tartans-authority, record)
This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. A variant of #1638. Not sure which, or both, is/are correct. Woven sample from Tom Sinclair scrapbook June 2014. - pre 2003 — MacColl 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
- 1950 (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: 2319
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1637
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1637
Thread count
Ri/12 R6 Ri12 DB44 Ri14 R4 W2 Ri4 DB4 Ri4 W2 R4 Ri14 G44 Ri14 G4 Ri4 R/4
One full sett is 376 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #A00048 #A00048 | oklch(45.4% 0.182 5.3) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
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/s18/ri6r3ri6db22ri7r2w1ri2db2ri2w1r2ri7g22ri7g2ri2r2x2ri2109032-r1807008/