Ashers of Nairn

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 YKWKYKWWKY.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11159

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
2014 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

LY/2 K3 W3 K44 LY4 K22 LB22 W3 K3 LY/2

One full sett is 212 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)

Sample pattern

LY/2 K3 W3 K44 LY4 K22 LB22 W3 K3 LY/2 tartan

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.

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