Austrian Bowhunters 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 GKBKGKRKRKBGBKGKBKGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=142
Provenance
Earliest known date: October 2004 Designed online by Andrea Egelkraut for the Austrian Bowhunters.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/10/2004 — Austrian Bowhunters Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed online by Andrea Egelkraut for the Austrian Bowhunters (thought to be a club for bow hunters (longbows, crossbows etc)). Address: Andrea Egelkraut, Kohlenhofgasse 4/24, A-1150 Vienna Austria. - 2004 October — Austrian Bowhunters Htg (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed online by Andrea Egelkraut for the Austrian Bowhunters (thought to be a club for bow hunters (longbows, crossbows etc). Address: Andrea Egelkraut, Kohlenhofgasse 4/24, A-1150 Vienna Austria. Not entirely sure that the DG80 is correct but there is no sample with which to compare. - October 2004 — Austrian Bowhunters Hunting Corporate 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
- 01/10/2004 (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: 142
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6460
Thread count
DG/80 K4 DR6 K4 DG6 K6 R6 K6 R6 K6 DR10 Y2 DR10 K6 DG6 K4 DR6 K4 DG6 K/6
One full sett is 294 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s20/dg40k2dr3k2dg3k3r3k3r3k3dr5y1dr5k3dg3k2dr3k2dg3k3~x2/