English: The Huntly district tartan (not to be confused with
the slightly more complex "Marchioness of Huntly's", misidentified by Scottish Register of Tartans also as just "Huntly"
[1], nor with
"old Huntly" also known as "Gordon, red (1819)"
[2]). SRT has gotten quite confused and also mislabels this Huntly tartan as "Marchioness of Huntly's"
[3], even though their own notes on the real tartan by that name make it clear they know it is the real tartan by that name
[4]; the error has been reported to them and these notes will be updated after they fix it. This image is exactly full-sett, and can tile horizontally and vertically. The tartan was first recorded in this exact form in D. W. Stewart's 1893
Old and Rare Scottish Tartans (SRT is again in error, and ascribes it to the 1819
Key Pattern Book of William Wilson & Son of Bannockburn, but that applies to "Marchioness of Huntly's"). It is probably much older, at least in variant forms. Scottish Register of Tartans notes on this pattern: "Peter MacDonald [of Scottish Tartans Authority] says (KPB [i.e, based on the
Key Pattern Book]) that there are over a dozen patterns of this type which obviously have a common ancestor which was probably the Lumsden of 1790 (#869, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). Relevant tartans are Ross, Rae, MacRae, and MacRae, The Princes Own." This is a repeating, not mirroring, tartan. SRT-provided thread count (in "..." notation, and with SRT's overly specific, non-standard hue names normalized to standard tartan colours): ...G64 R14 G64 R66 G8 R24 G8 R66 W6 R24 Y6 P66 R14 P66 Y6 R24 W6 R66 P4 R4 P10 R4 P4 R66 P4 R4 P10 R4 P4 R66 G64 R14 G64...