Robb 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 BRGBKYGRB.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3157

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 1994 — Robb Hunting (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed by Peter MacDonald for Martin Robb of Carroglen, Comrie, Perthshire. Can be worn by anyone of the name but Martin Robb would appreciate being advised.
  • undated — Robb (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed by Peter MacDonald for Martin Robb of Carroglen, Comrie, Perthshire. Can be worn by anyone of the name but Martin Robb would appreciate being advised.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Tartans Authority
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
data date
1994 (this record)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

DB/4 R2 DG52 LY2 K36 DB52 Y2 R2 DB/4

One full sett is 304 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)

Sample pattern

DB/4 R2 DG52 LY2 K36 DB52 Y2 R2 DB/4 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

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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