Faskin Family (Aberdeenshire)
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 WBKGKGWGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10571
Provenance
Earliest known date: 20/02/2012 Created to be a family tartan for the Faskin (Fasken) family in Aberdeenshire. The family name originates from Farskane near Cullen in Banffshire and Faskins have been resident in Aberdeenshire for 400 years. This tartan is primarily for the use of the designer's immediate family, but is also available for others to use in any way they choose. The colours were chosen to represent the Aberdeenshire and Banffshire countryside. Designed online using the Croftweaver software at www.tartansauthority.com. Anyone may have the tartan woven and it’s use should not be restricted
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 20/02/2012 — Faskin Family (Aberdeenshire) (register-of-tartans, record)
Created to be a family tartan for the Faskin (Fasken) family in Aberdeenshire. The family name originates from Farskane near Cullen in Banffshire and Faskins have been resident in Aberdeenshire for 400 years. This tartan is primarily for the use of the designer's immediate family, but is also available for others to use in any way they choose. The colours were chosen to represent the Aberdeenshire and Banffshire countryside. Designed online using the Croftweaver software at www.tartansauthority.com. Anyone may have the tartan woven and it’s use should not be restricted. - 20/02/2012 — Faskin (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Created to be a family tartan for the Faskin (Fasken) family in Aberdeenshire. The family name originates from Farskane near Cullen in Banffshire and Faskins have been resident in Aberdeenshire for 400 years. This tartan is primarily for the use of the designer's immediate family, but is also available for others to use in any way they choose. The colours were chosen to represent the Aberdeenshire and Banffshire countryside. Designed online using the Croftweaver software at www.tartansauthority.com. Anyone may have the tartan woven and it?s use should not be restricted. - 20/02/2012 — Faskin Family Name 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
- 20/02/2012 (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: 10571
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10571
Thread count
LB/2 DP20 K20 G24 K2 G24 LB4 G32 W/2
One full sett is 256 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| 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/s9/w1g16lb2g12k1g12k10dp10lb1~x2/