MacTavish 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 WGGWKW.
Part of the MacTavish Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2770
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1958 Designed for Lord Thomson of Fleet in 1958 based on a sample in the Moy Hall collection dating from the mid 19th century. The tartan is also suitable for MacTavishs and Thompsons, who claim descent from the Clan MacIntosh.
7 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1850 — MacTavish Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
This was designed for Lord Thompson of Fleet and was approved by the Lord Lyon, King of Arms in 1958. Based on a sample in the Moy Hall collection dating from the mid 19th century. The tartan is also suitable for MacTavishes and Thompsons, who claim descent from the Clan MacIntosh. - 1958 — MacTavish Htg (tartans-authority, record)
This was designed for Lord Thompson of Fleet and was approved by the Lord Lyon, King of Arms in 1958. Based on a sample in the Moy Hall collection dating from the mid 19th century. The tartan is also suitable for MacTavishes and Thompsons, who claim descent from the Clan MacIntosh. Same as 2093 so 2093 omitted from register. - 1958 — Thompson Hunting Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1965 — Thomson (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
This is now also MacTavish Hunting. Designed by John Bain & Alfred Bottomley of MacArthurs of Hamilton (now at Biggar [2002]). Alfred was owner/Managing Director of MacArthurs and John was a director and one of the leading designers in Scotland. The design work on this and the Thomson Hunting was for newspaper magnate, Lord Thomson of Fleet - via Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh. Recorded in Lord Lyon Book 23 on 7th December 1971. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. Now worn by many Thomsons regardless of spelling. John Bain (10th October 2002) remembers Lord Thomson visiting the mill in 1965 to discuss the designs. John Bain does not know where the 'hunting' suffix came from: when designed, this tartan was simply the 'Thomson' Since this is the same sett as the original MacTavish of 1906, it's not known what design work could have been involved in its production or indeed in any of the Thompson tartans. They seem to comprise a few colour changes and nothing else. Sindex calls this Lord Thomson: Hunting. All very confusing! Green lightened to show sett. - 1965 — Thomson (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This is now also MacTavish Hunting. Designed by John Bain & Alfred Bottomley of MacArthurs of Hamilton (now at Biggar [2002]). Alfred was owner/Managing Director of MacArthurs and John was a director and one of the leading designers in Scotland. The design work on this and the Thomson Htg was for newspaper magnate, Lord Thomson of Fleet - via Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh. Recorded in Lord Lyon Book 23 on 7th December 1971. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Now worn by many Thomsons regardless of spelling. John Bain (10th October 2002) remembers Lord Thomson visiting the mill in 1965 to discuss the designs. John Bain does not know where the 'hunting' suffix came from: when designed, this tartan was simply the 'Thomson' Since this is the same sett as the original MacTavish of 1906, it's not known what design work could have been involved in its production or indeed in any of the Thompson tartans. They seem to comprise a few colour changes and nothing else. Sindex calls this Lord Thomson: Hunting!!!! All very confusing! Green lightened to show sett. - pre 2003 — Thomson Lord.. (Hunting) Personal Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Thompson/Thomson/MacTavish Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for Lord Thomson of Fleet in 1958 based on a sample in the Moy Hall collection dating from the mid 19th century. The tartan is also suitable for MacTavishs and Thompsons, who claim descent from the Clan MacIntosh.
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: 4120
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 232
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 231
Thread count
LB/8 DY56 G12 LB24 K24 LB/6
One full sett is 246 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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.
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