Hunter (Wilsons1819)

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 WRWKWWWGGGGGGGRWRGGGWRWGWWWGKWWWRW.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 34 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1866

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 1819 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

W/2 R8 W2 K15 W2 LB5 W2 DG20 G2 DG4 G2 DG20 G3 Y3 R2 W2 R2 Y3 G3 DG20 W2 R32 W2 DG20 W2 LB5 W2 G4 K15 W2 LB5 W2 R8 W/2

One full sett is 446 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

W/2 R8 W2 K15 W2 LB5 W2 DG20 G2 DG4 G2 DG20 G3 Y3 R2 W2 R2 Y3 G3 DG20 W2 R32 W2 DG20 W2 LB5 W2 G4 K15 W2 LB5 W2 R8 W/2 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.

Duchess of Edinburgh TartanHunter (Wilsons)HunterBethune Name TartanAnderson (MacGregor-Hastie #4)Baxter Clan/Family TartanWilson's No.017Anderson PHay, or LeithAnderson 1groundcomplexity

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