MacIntyre Hunting Clan Tartan
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 GBRBGW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=743
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1800 There is a doublet in Kingussie Museum dated 1800 in this tartan. It also appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842).
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1800 — MacIntyre Hunting Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1840 — MacIntyre Hunting (VS) (register-of-tartans, record)
Sometimes referred to as Hunting MacIntyre. Recorded in Lord Lyon's Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, PRA 40/122, 29th December 1955. Scottish Tartans Society: There is a doublet in Kingussie Museum dated 1800 in this tartan. It also appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842) and in the Lord Lyon's Register of Arms (1955). Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Scarlett Collection. A woven strip from the Kilbarchan Weaver's Cottage has ancient green, Balmoral blue and an orangy red. - 1840 — MacIntyre - 1842 (VS) (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Sometimes referred to as Hunting MacIntyre. Recorded in Lord Lyon's Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland. PRA 40/122. 29th December 1955. STS: There is a doublet in Kingussie Museum dated 1800 in this tartan. It also appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842) and in the Lord Lyon's Register of Arms (1955). Sample in STA Scarlett Collection. A woven strip from the Kilbarchan Weaver's Cottage has ancient green, Balmoral blue and an orangy red. - undated — MacIntyre LC (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1800 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 2485
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 743
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 743
Thread count
G/8 DB24 R6 DB24 G64 W/8
One full sett is 252 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/s6/g4db12r3db12g32w4~x2/