MacAulay 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 GKWKGKGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2288
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1950 This shorter version tallies with the count published by M'Intyre North in 1881 as having been given him by Logan. There are two Clans of the name associated with districts as far apart as Dumbarton and Lewis and they have no family connection with each other. They are the MacAulays of Ardencaple associated with the MacGregors and the MacAulays of Lewis who are associated with the MacLeods. This sett in its shortened form begins to resemble the MacGregor tartan.
7 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1850 — MacAulay Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on the MacAulay sett recorded by Logan (1830s). - pre 1850 — MacAulay Htg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Notwithstanding that Smith's version is contemporarily used for dress tartan, the hunting sett uses the earlier Logan sett. Sutton & Carr note "This is a modern sett, based on the earlier MacAulay now known as Comyn" - 1950 — MacAuley Hunting Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacAulay Hunting (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacAuley, hunting (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacAulay Hunting (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacAulay Hunting (weddslist, record)
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
- 1850 (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: 2288
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 827
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 827
Thread count
G/12 K32 W2 K32 G16 K8 G24 R/4
One full sett is 244 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 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/g6k16w1k16g8k4g12r2~x2/