American Soc.of Travel Agents (Corp)
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 BBBBBRBGW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2316
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Pre 1995 — American Soc.of Travel Agents (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
Deisgned by Kinloch Anderson for the Scottish Tourist Board trained US Travel Agents. Based on Davidson since the first President of the ASTA from 1931 - 1938 was Mr E. Irvine Davis.Designed to celebrate the ASTA 1997 world conference in Glasgow. Thread count estimated from illustration. - 01/01/1996 — American Society of Travel Agents, The (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Kinloch Anderson for the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA). Based on the Davidson sett since the first President/Chairman of ASTA (1931-1938) was Mr E Irvine Davis.
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
- Pre 1995 (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: 71
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2316
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2316
Thread count
DB/4 N20 DB2 N2 DB20 R2 DB20 G20 W/4
One full sett is 180 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s9/db2n10db1n1db10r1db10g10w2~x2/