Alyssa's Theme
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 BKBKRBRKRBKRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10656
Provenance
Earliest known date: 10/07/2012 This tartan was created for Alyssa Elliott as a thank-you for helping the designer recover from two reconstructive surgeries, one in 2006 and one in 2007.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 10/07/2012 — Alyssa's Theme (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was created for Alyssa Elliott as a thank-you for helping the designer recover from two reconstructive surgeries, one in 2006 and one in 2007. - 10/07/2012 — Alyssa's Theme (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was created for Alyssa Elliott as a thank-you for helping the designer recover from two reconstructive surgeries, one in 2006 and one in 2007. - 10/07/2012 — Alyssa's Theme Fashion 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
- 10/07/2012 (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: 10656
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10656
Thread count
K/4 R26 K16 N4 R2 K2 R42 N2 R2 K4 DB16 K26 DB/4
One full sett is 292 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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/s13/k2r13k8n2r1k1r21n1r1k2db8k13db2~x2/