Alasdair Dhana
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 GBGBGBGBGBGK.
Part of the Alasdair Dhana tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=36
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2006 — Alasdair Dhana (register-of-tartans, record)
A tartan designed for Paul Alexander of Hamilton, Scotland, which can be worn by anyone of the name of Alexander. Loosely based on the MacDonald sett as Alexander is a sept of the MacDonalds. - 2006 January — Alasdair Dhana (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
A personal tartan for Paul Alexander of Hamilton, Scotland which can be worn by anyone of the name. Loosely based on MacDonald of which Alexander is a sept.
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
- 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: 36
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6828
Thread count
DG/6 DT40 DG32 DR4 DG4 DR6 DG6 DR10 DG32 DT40 DY2 K/4
One full sett is 362 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| R | #C8002C #C8002C | oklch(52.6% 0.212 22.0) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
Sample pattern
ID: /variants/s12/dg3dt20dg16dr2dg2dr3dg3dr5dg16dt20dy1k2~x2/