Hunter (1775)
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 RRGYRRWRWYBGYWYWYGBYWRRGRRWGWGYGWGWGWGYGWGWRRGRRWGYWYGWGWBWBWGWRRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 66 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1789
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
- 1775 (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: 1789
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5873
Thread count
R/60 Ri8 Y12 LY8 Ri8 R32 W4 Ri8 W4 LY8 DB36 Y12 LYi6 W4 LY8 W4 LYi6 Y12 DB36 LY8 W4 Ri8 R24 Y4 R24 Ri6 W4 G20 W4 G4 LYi8 G4 W4 Y16 W8 Y16 W4 G4 LYi8 G4 W4 G20 W4 Ri8 R24 Y4 R24 Ri8 W4 G20 LY8 W8 LY8 G20 W4 Y12 W4 DB24 W4 DB24 W4 Y12 W4 Ri8 R24 W/4
One full sett is 1444 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) |
| R | #D05054 #D05054 | oklch(60.2% 0.162 21.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| Y | #789484 #789484 | oklch(64.0% 0.040 160.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| R | #C8002C #C8002C | oklch(52.6% 0.212 22.0) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #E8C000 #E8C000 | oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7) |
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/s66/r30ri4y6ly4ri4r16w2ri4w2ly4db18y6lyi3w2ly4w2lyi3y6db18ly4w2ri4r12y2r12ri3w2g10w2g2lyi4g2w2y8w4y8w2g2lyi4g2w2g10w2ri4r12y2r12ri4w2g10ly4w4ly4g10w2y6w2db12w2db12w2y6w2ri4r12w2x2r2108022-ri2406019-y260-h17d5b042af7a72e9/