Leslie 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 KGWKBR.
Part of the Leslie Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2103
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1810 — Leslie Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society records: said to have been worn by George, 14th Earl of Rothes who died in 1841. This sett is shown by Smibert (1850) and by W and A Smith (1850) but without the definition of 'Hunting'. These colours similar to Kilbarchan sample. See #1112 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) Duncan which is, in Clans Originaux of 1880, also called Leslie of Wards. Also said to have been called Syme in an 1882 pattern book. When woven for the KOSB the black and blue are so dark as to be virtually indistinguishable and the green is extremely dark. Swatch from Wm.Anderson & Sons of Glasgow. Second swatch in October 2004 from Glover & Riding, Military Tailors of Aldershot. This collection was put together by General Sir William Cockburn, between 1810-1820. Now in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. - 1850 — Leslie Htg - 1850 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
In 1821 a Leslie tartan was unknown to Wilsons of Bannockburn (Wilson letters). Tartan Society records: said to have been worn by George, 14th Earl of Rothes who died in 1841 and there is a Wilsons' sample from c1830-40 meaning that it must have been designed/adopted around that time. This sett is shown by Smibert (1850) and by W & A Smith (1850) but without the definition of 'Hunting'. These colours similar to Kilbarchan sample. See #1112 Duncan which is, in Clans Originaux of 1880, also called Leslie of Wards. Also said to have been called Syme in an 1882 pattern book. When woven for the KOSB the black and blue are so dark as to be virtually indistinguishable and the green is extremely dark. Swatch from Wm.Anderson & Sons of Glasgow. Second swatch in October 2004 from Glover & Riding, Military Tailors of Aldershot. - 1882 — Syme (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
From NOMINDEX. "Sett described in Neilson, Shaw & MacGregor catalogue (Glasgow International Exhibition) 1888. Blue and black, green checks, white and red lines." No clues at to sett. March 2007 - A Leslie Hunting colour strip from James Cant's (d1960) manuscript says 'also called Syme in 1882 pattern book.'
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
- 1810 (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: 2103
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6376
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1113
Thread count
K/4 G32 W4 K32 DB32 R/4
One full sett is 208 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/k1g8w1k8db8r1~x4/