Rothesay Hunting (District)
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 WGRGRGRGRGRGRGWGW.
Part of the Rothesay Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1805
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1906 — Rothesay Hunting (District) (tartans-authority, record)
This is also worn by Prince Charles but retains its original name of Rothesay Htg and is not referred to as 'The Duke of Rothesay.' Details from J.Cant via Sindex. He worked in the 1940s hence the suggested date for this setting. This pattern is simply a colour change of G and R of Wilsons' Rothesay sett as per the kilt C.1840-50. Formerly in the West Highland and now in the National Museum. Cloth 21" wide @ 54epi. Count divided by four to show sett. Original count was: W12 DG332 R28 DG20 R28 DG28 R110 DG28 R55 DG28 R28 DG20 R28 DG332 W4 DG6 W12. EBW 21.10.02 - 01/01/1940 — Rothesay Hunting, Duke of (register-of-tartans, record)
This is also worn by Prince Charles but retains its original name of Rothesay Hunting and is not referred to as 'The Duke of Rothesay'. Details from J.Cant via Sindex. He worked in the 1940s hence the suggested date for this setting. This pattern is simply a colour change of G and R of Wilsons' Rothesay sett as per the kilt C.1840-50. Formerly in the West Highland and now in the National Museum. Cloth 21' wide at 54epi. Count divided by four to show sett. Original count was: W12 DG332 R28 DG20 R28 DG28 R110 DG28 R55 DG28 R28 DG20 R28 DG332 W4 DG6 W12.
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
- pre 1906 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 3574
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1805
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1805
Thread count
W/8 G83 R7 G5 R7 G7 R28 G7 R28 G7 R7 G5 R7 G83 W4 G4 W/8
One full sett is 594 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s17/w8g83r7g5r7g7r28g7r28g7r7g5r7g83w4g4w8/