MacSween Hunting (Lochs, Isle of Lewis) (Personal)
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 GKGGGRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10888
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 18/07/2013 — MacSween Hunting (Lochs, Isle of Lewis) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Kinloch Anderson and Donald, Rory and Stuart MacSween. The colours and design of the MacSween tartan reflect the family's origins in the Isle of Lewis and its service in the UK Armed Forces. Black and green represent the Royal Green Jackets Regiment and the dark sea of the Minch, the sand colour represents 22 Special Air Service Regiment's operations in Oman's Qara mountains and desert during the Dhofar War. The ancient red represents a family link to the Seaforth and Cameron Highlanders and to the City of Liverpool. - 2013 — MacSween Hunting (Lochs, Isle of Lew (tartans-authority, record)
The colours and design of the MacSween tartan reflect the family's origins in the Isle of Lewis and its service in the UK Armed Forces. Black and green represent the Royal Green Jackets Regiment and the dark sea of the Minch, the sand colour represents 22 Special Air Service Regiment's operations in Oman's Qara mountains and desert during the Dhofar War. The ancient red represents a family link to the Seaforth and Cameron Highlanders and to the City of Liverpool.
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
- 18/07/2013 (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: 10888
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10888
Thread count
Y/3 K22 G4 DG18 G31 R3 G/3
One full sett is 162 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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
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