Elbrick Hunting (Personal)

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 GBGGGGBW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5052

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/12/2004 — Elbrick Hunting (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
    A private House tartan, based on the Elbrick Dress. The green of wild strawberry leaves replaces red for use on the hill, after Fraser clan symbol of 'fraises'. This is a restricted tartan, with Kinloch Anderson Limited appointed as custodians.
  • pre 2004 — Elbrick Hunting (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed by Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh for the Elbrick family. The colours incorporate those from the family's armorial bearings - blue and gold.The green of wild strawberry leaves replaces the red of the dress tartan (#6190) for use on the hill, after Fraser clan symbol of 'fraises'. This is a restricted tartan, with Kinloch Anderson Limited appointed as custodians.
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
01/12/2004 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

G/12 Ti44 G12 DY40 Y2 G90 T2 W/10

One full sett is 402 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#2888C4 #2888C4oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5)
T#5C8CA8 #5C8CA8oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

G/12 Ti44 G12 DY40 Y2 G90 T2 W/10 tartan

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

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