Borthwick 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 GKRKBKBKR.
Part of the Borthwick tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=315
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 Borthwick is an ancient Scottish family of Celtic origin. William de Borthwick built Borthwick Castle in Midlothian in the 14th century. The present chief of the border family is Major John Henry Stuart Borthwick of Crookston, Midlothian. He was recognised by Lord Lyon as the 23rd Lord Borthwick in 1986.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1951 — Borthwick Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Although a Borthwick Hunting tartan existed in the 1950s, this version was recorded in the Lord Lyon Book LCB 47 dated 10th September 1984. Lord Lyon count: Grey24 blacK32 Grey24 K6 Dark Red12 K6 Grey24 K32 Grey24 K6 DR24 K4 Grey24 K4 DR24 K6. Borthwick is an ancient Scottish family of Celtic origin. William de Borthwick built Borthwick Castle in Midlothian in the 14th century. The present chief of the border family is Major John Henry Stuart Borthwick of Crookston, Midlothian. He was recognised by Lord Lyon as the 23rd Lord Borthwick in 1986. Dalgety notes say this was made for Borthwick of Crookston in 1951 by Anderson of Galashiels. - pre 2003 — Borthwick Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Borthwick (register-of-tartans, record)
Borthwick is an ancient Scottish family of Celtic origin. William de Borthwick built Borthwick Castle in Midlothian in the 15th century. The present chief of the border family is John Hugh Borthwick, elder son of Major John Henry Stuart Borthwick of Crookston, Midlothian. Major Borthwick was recognised by Lord Lyon as the 23rd Lord Borthwick in 1986. Recorded in Lyon Court Books (LCB 47) on 10th September 1984. - undated — Borthwick (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
- 1951 (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: 316
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 815
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 816
Thread count
G/24 K4 R24 K6 N24 K32 N24 K6 R/12
One full sett is 276 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/s9/g12k2r12k3n12k16n12k3r6~x2/