Menzies (Clan)
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 GRGRGRGR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=894
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1893 This sett is woven in various colours with the same basic design. The certified version is red and black. The hunting Menzies was recorded by D.W. Stewart in his book, 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893), which contained a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1893 — Menzies (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This sett is woven in various colours with the same basic design. The certified version is red and black. The hunting Menzies was recorded by D.W. Stewart in his book, 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893), which contained a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity. - 1893 — Menzies Hunting Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 1893 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 894
Thread count
DG/96 R8 DG4 R8 DG12 R4 DG6 R/18
One full sett is 198 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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/s8/dg48r4dg2r4dg6r2dg3r9~x2/