Matheson Hunting (Red) Clan Tartan

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 GRGBRGRGRGRGRGBGRGRGR.

Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 21 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=902

Provenance

Earliest known date: pre 2003 Incomplete sett. Second pivot is assumed.

3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • pre 2003 — Matheson Hunting (Red) Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
  • undated — Matheson Hunting (STS incomplete sett) (register-of-tartans, record)
    Incomplete sett. Second pivot is assumed. Scottish Tartans Society archive.
  • undated — Matheson, hunting (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
House of Tartan
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
data date
pre 2003 (this record)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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

  1. House of Tartan
    the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity
  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

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Thread count

R/16 G6 R2 G2 R2 G44 DB16 G6 R2 G2 R2 G6 R12 G2 R2 G2 R4 DB12 G10 R6 G/8

One full sett is 304 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

R/16 G6 R2 G2 R2 G44 DB16 G6 R2 G2 R2 G6 R12 G2 R2 G2 R4 DB12 G10 R6 G/8 tartan

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.

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