MacRae 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 GKGRGKBW.
Part of the MacRae Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2744
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1715 — MacRae Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount taken from a MacGgregor Hastie sample. This is the standard sett but lacks the black guard on the white stripe. A Kinloch Anderson swatch calls this 'MacRae Old Hunting'. STR ref. #2745 is the same sett as this and is attributed as follows: 'Based on a piece of kilt believed to have been worn at Sheriffmuir (13th November 1715) Olive green or Grey / green. 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartan' was written by D W Stewart and published in 1893.' When woven in muted or old colours weavers inexplicably insert a black guard on the white. - 1893 — MacRae Htg - 1893 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
From a MacGgregor Hastie specimen. Same as standard but lacks black guard on the white stripe. Sample in STA Collection. Kinloch Anderson swatch calls this MacRae Old Hunting. #807 is the same as this and is attrbiuted as follows: "Based on a piece of kilt believed to have been worn at Sheriffmuir. (13th November 1715) Olive green or Grey/green. 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartan' was written by D.W.Stewart and published in 1893." When woven in muted or old colours weavers inexplicably insert a black guard on the white. (BW 22.9.04)
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
- 1715 (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: 2744
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 803
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 803
Thread count
DG/48 K8 DG12 R8 DG12 K38 DT44 W/10
One full sett is 302 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s8/dg24k4dg6r4dg6k19dt22w5~x2/