Matheson Hunting (Crowe 1974) (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 GBGBGBWGBGBGBGBGBWGBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 21 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2856
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1974 — Matheson Hunting (Crowe 1974) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
This is STR#2855 with the black replaced by white. It was supplied by the Kilt Shop in Edinburgh for a Highland dancer Miss Christine Crowe, Edinburgh, for her personal use. Info from Miss Crowe via Tony Murray, Stirling 1974. - 1974 — Matheson Htg Dance (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
This is #693 with the black replaced by white. It was supplied by the Kilt Shop in Edinburgh for a Highland dancer Miss Christine Crowe, 251 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh for her personal use. Info from Miss Crowe via Tony Murray, Stirling 1974.
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
- 1974 (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: 2856
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6368
Thread count
G/32 T16 G4 T4 G4 T96 W32 G16 T4 G4 T4 G16 T32 G4 T4 G4 T4 W32 G32 T8 G/8
One full sett is 680 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s21/g8t4g1t1g1t24w8g4t1g1t1g4t8g1t1g1t1w8g8t2g2~x4/