Stuart of Bute, The Htg (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 RGKGKGKRW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1485
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1840 — Stuart of Bute, The Htg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
The Stuarts of Bute are descended from the natural son of King Robert II. The use of this tartan is normally considered to be confined to the family from whom it derives its title, though others more or less closely related have likewise claimed an interest. Whether or not the pattern was in use before the publication of the Vestiarium Scoticum, has never been ascertained. The popular version is in maroon and is called 'The hunting......' .This change from red does not have the approval of the Marquis of Bute. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Called Hunting Stewart of Bute by West Coast Woolen Mills No 1210. 19th C sample from Kilbarchan Weaver's Cottage uses bright orang-red in place of maroon. - 01/01/1842 — Stuart of Bute (register-of-tartans, record)
The Stuart of Bute tartan as used by the family today is based on the description contained in the Sobieski Stewarts’ ‘Vestiarium Scoticum’ (1842). The ‘Vestiarium Scoticum’ contains details of a number of clan and family tartans which the Sobieski Stewarts’ claimed were detailed in a 16th century manuscript in the possession of their father. It appears that this tartan only gained popularity with the family in the latter part of the 20th century. There have been variations with a dark red or maroon rather than a red sett however this shade did not meet with the approval of the Bute family. Lord Bute is the current Clan Chief of the Stuarts of Bute and the owner of Bute Fabrics, which has redeveloped the Stuart of Bute tartan in 2013 and woven it in a contemporary range of colours. A sample of the contemporary Stuart of Bute tartan is preserved in the National Records of Scotland.
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 1840 (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
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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
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Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3951
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1485
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1485
Thread count
R/48 G24 K4 G8 K4 G4 K24 R96 W/8
One full sett is 384 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s9/r12g6k1g2k1g1k6r24w2~x4/