Cumming 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 KRGRKWRGRKRWKRKRGRWKRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 23 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=837
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1850 — Cumming Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
This appears to be the correct sett for the Cumming Hunting. Woven samples from Jamie Scarlett MBE & Lochcarron in Scottish Tartans Authority's Collection. Jamie Scarlett MBE suggests that this Hunting tartan 'is clearly a misrepresentation of a tartan that appears in an early collection under the name Cumming and Glenorchy.' Note the use of and rather than of. See #507 & #1902 (original Scottish Tartans Authority references). - 1850 — Cumming - 1970 Htg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. This appears to be the correct asymmetric sett for the Cumming Hunting. Woven samples from Jamie Scarlett & Lochcarron in STA Collection. Jamie Scarlett MBE suggests that this Hunting tartan "is clearly a misrepresentation of a tartan that appears in an early collection under the name Cumming and Glenorchy." Note the use of AND rather than OF. See #507 & 1902.
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
- 1850 (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: 837
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4636
Thread count
K/4 R4 G32 R4 K24 LB4 R24 G24 R4 K32 R4 LB4 K4 R4 K32 R4 G24 R24 LB4 K24 R4 G32 R/4
One full sett is 640 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
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/s23/k1r1g8r1k6lb1r6g6r1k8r1lb1k1r1k8r1g6r6lb1k6r1g8r1~x4/