Ramsay Blue 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 BKBKWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3454
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1950 — Ramsay Blue Hunting (register-of-tartans, 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. The late Harry Lindley (who designed tartans for Kinloch Anderson Limited) notes state: 'During recent years, having no Hunting tartan, Blue was used in place of red and this has become recognised as their Hunting tartan. As a Lowland Clan the blue dyes were much used.' Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Collection and Lochcarron swatch. The Pilgrim Bandits have permission to use this tartan as their offical charity tartan. - pre 1950 — Ramsay, Blue Htg (Clan) (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. Harry Lindley notes state: "During recent years, having no Hunting tartan, Blue was used in place of red and this has become recognised as their Hunting tartan. As a Lowland Clan the blue dyes were much used." Sample in STA Collection. + Lochcarron swatch. 31 May 2013 - with Chief's permission now being used as tartan for 'The Pilgrim Bandits' a charity established by a small group of Special Forces veterans in 2007 with the sole aim of using their unique training and experience to help and inspire wounded soldiers to live life to the full.
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: 3454
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 259
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 259
Thread count
K/8 LB4 K56 T60 K2 T/6
One full sett is 258 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/k4lb2k28t30k1t3~x2/