MacKintosh Hunting
Bands: BRGRBGY · Stripes: DB R G R DB G LY DB R G R DB G LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2574
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1951 — MacKintosh Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 1951 — MacKintosh Htg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2574
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 544
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 544
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DB/2 R8 G24 R6 DB12 G24 Y/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacKintosh Hunting — ΔT 1.00
- Arkansas — ΔT 1.04
- Bean Hunting — ΔT 1.08
- MacKintosh, hunting — ΔT 1.12
- Paton (Personal) — ΔT 1.17
- Scottish Scouts (1957) (Corporate) — ΔT 1.18
- Grange School — ΔT 1.22
- Taylor — ΔT 1.28
- Land's End Camel — ΔT 1.29
- Cameron of Lochiel (Hunting) Clan/Family Tartan Tartan Number: 5351. Earliest known date: 01/01/1940 Design close to Cameron Hunting which has two red lines shown in Vestiarium Scoticum. This design evolved in the 1940s by J G MacKay of Portree and was first put on show at the Cameron Gathering at Achnacarry in 1956. (original STA ref: 1535) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.29
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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