Marchioness of Huntly's

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 GRGRBRBRBRBRBRBRWRYBRBYRWRGRGRGRG.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 33 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2830

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
1819 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

G/64 R14 G64 R66 G8 R24 G8 R66 LB6 R24 LY6 DP66 R14 DP66 LY6 R24 LB6 R66 DP4 R4 DP10 R4 DP4 R66 DP4 R4 DP10 R4 DP4 R66 G64 R14 G/64

One full sett is 1720 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)

Sample pattern

G/64 R14 G64 R66 G8 R24 G8 R66 LB6 R24 LY6 DP66 R14 DP66 LY6 R24 LB6 R66 DP4 R4 DP10 R4 DP4 R66 DP4 R4 DP10 R4 DP4 R66 G64 R14 G/64 tartan

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.

Huntly (District)HuntlyRoss #3Huntly District TartanMacRae of Inverinate Clan TartanMacDougall DLumsden (Waistcoat)Lumsden WaistcoatMacRae of InverinateMacAlister (Gourlay Steele Collection)groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s33/g32r7g32r33g4r12g4r33lb3r12ly3dp33r7dp33ly3r12lb3r33dp2r2dp5r2dp2r33dp2r2dp5r2dp2r33g32r7g32~x2/

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