Ailsa, Royal Blue (Dance)
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 BWBWBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7595
Provenance
Earliest known date: March 2008 One of a series of dancer's tartans for the House of Edgar's in-house collection designed by Kirsty Anderson.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- March 2008 — Ailsa, Royal Blue (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
One of a series of dancer's tartans for the House of Edgar's in-house collection designed by Kirsty Anderson. - March 2008 — Ailsa Royal Blue Fashion Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Ailsa Royal Blue (register-of-tartans, record)
One of a series of dancer's tartans for the House of Edgar's in-house collection designed by Kirsty Anderson.
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
- March 2008 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5619
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7595
Thread count
DBi/16 LB6 DBi56 W64 DB6 W/8
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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/s6/dbi8lb3dbi28w32db3w4x2dbi1406275-db1404245/