MacLaine of Lochbuie Hunting
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 BBBKY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2592
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — MacLaine of Lochbuie Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
The Sett is also recorded by Adam in 1908. The hunting version first appeared in this century, in the work of H. Whyte, author of 'The Scottish Clans and Their Tartan', published by W. and A.K. Johnston. His book introduced many new hunting and dress forms of both clan and family tartans. D.W. Stewart (1893) pointed out that the use of so much blue, was unique among old tartan setts. This sett wovven by House of Edgar. - pre 2002 — MacLaine of Lochbuie Htg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
The Sett is also recorded by Adam in 1908. The hunting version first appeared in this century, in the work of H. Whyte published by W. and A.K. Johnston. His book introduced many new hunting and dress forms of both clan and family tartans. D.W. Stewart (1893) pointed out that the use of so much blue, was unique among old tartan setts. This sett vwoven by House of Edgar.
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
- 2002 (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: 2592
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 491
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 491
Thread count
DT/64 DR6 DT8 K4 LO/6
One full sett is 106 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s5/dt32dr3dt4k2lo3~x2/