MacIver 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 WGKGKGKGY.
Part of the MacIver 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=2493
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1998 — MacIver Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
In this the red ground changes to green and supercedes the comment made in #1855, (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) about there being no MacIver Hunting. Scottish Tartans Society notes that this was worn in 1998 by Ian MacIver Chairman of the MacIver Society. The sett was found on the west coast of Scotland. It avoids the confusion with the MacArthur Hunting #1100, (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Dalgety Collection. - pre 1998 — MacIver Hunting (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
In this the red ground changes to green and supercedes the comment made in #1855 about there being no MacIver Hunting. STS notes that this was worn in 1998 by Ian MacIver Chairman of the MacIver Society. The sett was found on the west coast of Scotland. It avoids the confusion with the MacArthur Hunting #1100. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection. Lochcarron sample proportions quite different: Y/4 G48 K8 G8 K60 G8 K8 G46 W/4
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
- 1998 (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: 2493
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2697
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2697
Thread count
LY/4 DG24 K6 DG6 K32 DG6 K6 DG24 W/4
One full sett is 216 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/w2dg12k3dg3k16dg3k3dg12ly2~x2/