Naysmith, William A (Personal)
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 WBBKWKWKBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3105
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2002 Based loosely on Gunn and designed by William A Naysmith who was a professional textile designer and one time Governor of the Edinburgh College of Art. Controlled by the designer for use by his family and descendents.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/1996 — Naysmith, William A (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Based loosely on Gunn and designed by William A Naysmith, who was a professional textile designer and one time Governor of the Edinburgh College of Art, and Kinloch Anderson Ltd. Controlled by the designer for use by his family and the descendants of Alexander Naysmith and Christina Somerville Naysmith (the designer's deceased parents). - pre 2002 — Naysmith (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Based loosely on Gunn and designed by William A Naysmith who was a professional textile designer and one time Governor of the Edinburgh College of Art. Controlled by the designer for use by his family and descendents. - pre 2002 — Naysmith, William S Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 01/08/1996 (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: 3105
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2319
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2319
Thread count
LBi/8 DR4 DB28 K8 LBi8 K6 LBi6 K4 DR4 LB/4
One full sett is 148 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #A8ACE8 #A8ACE8 | oklch(76.3% 0.086 281.2) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 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/s10/lbi4dr2db14k4lbi4k3lbi3k2dr2lb2x2lbi3200000-lb3103284/