Voluntary Service Aberdeen
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 RWKBBRWBRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4470
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/2006 — Voluntary Service Aberdeen (register-of-tartans, record)
Voluntary Service Aberdeen (VSA) is the product of a number of local charities merging over the past hundred years and providing caring services to the local community. This tartan was commissioned in 2006 by the VSA from Brian Wilton of the Scottish Tartans Authority. The founders of the VSA would certainly have been familiar with the Gordon tartan upon which this design is based. It uses the VSA's corporate colours of purple, grey, light grey, black and white and the three narrow white lines on the purple represent the three directoratres of the VSA - Children & Family, Older People and Adults & Community. Weaving by Lochcarron of Scotland. - 2006 August — Voluntary Service Aberdeen (Corp.) (tartans-authority, record)
Voluntary Service Aberdeen is the product of a number of local charities merging over the past hundred years and providing caring services to the local community. This tartan was commissioned in 2006 by the VSA from Brian Wilton of the Scottish Tartans Authority. The founders of the VSA would certainly have been familiar with the Gordon tartan upon which this design is based. It uses the VSA's corporate colours of purple, grey, light grey, black and white and the three narrow white lines on the purple represent the three directorates of the VSA - Children & Family, Older People and Adults & Community. Weaving by Lochcarron of Scotland.
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
- 01/08/2006 (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: 4470
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6995
Thread count
Oi/8 W2 K70 N2 DB4 O8 W2 DB28 O16 W/2
One full sett is 274 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | oklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #888888 #888888 | oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9) |
| P | #AA2DBD #AA2DBD | oklch(55.0% 0.225 322.0) |
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/oi4w1k35n1db2o4w1db14o8w1x2oi2500000-n1900000/