Menzies Hunting
Bands: GRGRGRGR · Stripes: DG R DG R DG R DG R DG R DG R DG R DG R
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Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- undated — Menzies Hunting (weddslist, record)
- undated — Menzies Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 894. Earliest known date: 1893 This sett is woven in various colours with the same basic design. The certified version is red and black. The hunting Menzies was recorded by D.W. Stewart in his book, 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893), which contained a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1166
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1510
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1758
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2307
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2349
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2540
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2582
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2585
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2625
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2730
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2862
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3072
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3555
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4925
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 696
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 697
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 982
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1277
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1429
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 218
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 977
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1042
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 127
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1277
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1399
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1429
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1593
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3061
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 441
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 737
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 858
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 864
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 873
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 897
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 977
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 978
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DG/96 DR8 DG4 DR8 DG12 DR4 DG6 DR/18

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DG | #11450D #11450D | G #006100 | 0.09 |
| DR | #AA0000 #AA0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.07 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Menzies Hunting — ΔT 1.06
- Menzies — ΔT 1.24
- Aukland & District Pipe Band (Corp) — ΔT 1.85
- Fife, Duke Of — ΔT 1.98
- Highland Hospice (Fashion) — ΔT 2.03
- Madoc (Welsh Name) — ΔT 2.10
- Silver Mist — ΔT 2.13
- Welsh National — ΔT 2.16
- Unidentified Plaid #2 — ΔT 2.16
- Bannockbane Hunting — ΔT 2.20
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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