Tweedside 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 BGKGWGWGK.
Part of the Tweedside Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4168
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1968 — Tweedside Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
The popular Tweedside Hunting tartan is a variation on a design from the weavers William Wilson & Sons of Bannockburn. The setting does not appear in any of the 19th century collections which suggests it is a 20th century creation. Woven by DC Dalgliesh in 1968. - 1968 — Tweedside Htg (District) (tartans-authority, record)
A colour change on the 1840 red sett produced by D C Dalgliesh in 1968 (NOMINDEX notes). Sample in STA Johnston Collection. D.C.Dalgliesh weave. Green lightened to show sett. Samples in STA Dalgety Collection.
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
- 1968 (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: 4168
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 163
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 163
Thread count
DB/72 G8 K8 G20 W8 G8 W8 G8 K/8
One full sett is 216 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s9/db18g2k2g5w2g2w2g2k2~x4/