Erskine 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 GGGGGG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1127
5 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1948 — Erskine Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
The Royal Scots Fusiliers were given approval in 1948 to wear the Hunting Erskine, the family tartan of the Earls of Mar. Apparently extensive notes exist in the Scottish Tartans Society archive giving the conflicting opinions about this sett. D.C. Dalgliesh also weave a version of this it is believed. See also #5394 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). - 1948 — Erskine (Hunting) (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
The Royal Scots Fusiliers were given approval in 1948 to wear the Hunting Erskine, the family tartan of the Earls of Mar. Apparently extensive notes exist in the Scottish Tartans Society archive giving the conflicting opinions about this sett. D.C. Dalgliesh also weave a version of this it is believed. See also #5394. - 01/01/1949 — Royal Scots Fusiliers (register-of-tartans, record)
See also #755 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) People's Journal of 5th March 1949 reports 'The firm of J and P Paton have just designed a new tartan for the Royal Scots Fusiliers. It is based on the Erskine and may be known as the Hunting Erskine.' This is Patons of Tillicoultry. - 1949 — Royal Scots Fusiliers (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
See alsop #755 People's Journal of 5th March 1949 reports " The firm of J and P Paton have just designed a new tartan for the Royal Scots Fusiliers. It is based on the Erskine and may be known as the Hunting Erskine." This is Patons of Tillicoultry. - undated — Erskine, hunting (weddslist, 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
- 1948 (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: 3606
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5394
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 755
Thread count
DG/10 G6 DG48 G48 DG6 G/10
One full sett is 236 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
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/s6/dg5g3dg24g24dg3g5~x2/