Aitchison Family (Kinghorn) (Personal)
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 BGKBKBKBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10686
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 21/08/2012 — Aitchison Family (Kinghorn) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
The rationale for the design and colours of the tartan are as follows: the three black strips denote the designer's three sons; the purple line denotes that the registrant is a Minister of the Church of Scotland and an Army Chaplain (purple being the colour of the academic hoods for Divinity Graduates of Aberdeen University, and a universally recognised colour for the Clergy); the green and blues are from the tartans for the names which appear in the registrant's family tree: Gordon, Forbes, and Allan, and from his family's association with the Clergy, the Black Watch, the Gordon Highlanders and the Royal Air Force. - 21/08/2012 — Aitchison (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
The rationale for the design and colours of the tartan are as follows: the three black strips denote the designer's three sons; the purple line denotes that the registrant is a Minister of the Church of Scotland and an Army Chaplain (purple being the colour of the academic hoods for Divinity Graduates of Aberdeen University, and a universally recognised colour for the Clergy); the green and blues are from the tartans for the names which appear in the registrant's family tree: Gordon, Forbes, and Allan, and from his family's association with the Clergy, the Black Watch, the Gordon Highlanders and the Royal Air Force. Designed by the Reverend James W. Aitchison for his personal use and that of his immediate family. No one is permitted to weave or wear this Tartan without the express written permission of the designer or his descendants.
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
- 21/08/2012 (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: 10686
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10686
Thread count
K/4 DB6 K4 DB36 K22 DB4 K22 G50 DP/4
One full sett is 296 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/k2db3k2db18k11db2k11g25dp2~x2/