Duke of York 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 GBWBGBGG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1012
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 Kinloch Anderson Gift.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Duke of York Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Gift to the Duke of York from Kinloch Anderson. Sample in the Scottish Tartans Society 'Royal Collection'. - pre 2002 — Duke of York Htg (Royal) (tartans-authority, record)
Gift to the Duke of York from Kinloch Anderson. Sample in the Scottish Tartans Society 'Royal Collection'. - pre 2003 — Duke of York Hunting Royal Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Duke of York, 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
- 2002 (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: 1012
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 745
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 745
Thread count
G/99 DB20 W8 DB30 Y8 DB10 Y8 G/46
One full sett is 313 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s8/g99db20w8db30y8db10y8g46/