Ailsa, Royal Blue (Dance)
Bands: BBBWBW · Stripes: DB T DB W DT W DB T DB W DT W
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/7595/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- March 2008 — Ailsa, Royal Blue (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Ailsa Royal Blue (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — Ailsa Royal Blue Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 7595. 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. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5619
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7595
Thread count
DBa/16 B6 DBa56 W64 DB6 W/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | B #2A418A | 0.08 |
| DBa | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| W | #F0E0C8 #F0E0C8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacPherson Dress Blue (Dance) — ΔT 0.54
- MacPherson, Blue & White — ΔT 0.79
- Ailsa, Navy (Dance) — ΔT 1.06
- Cunningham, Dress Blue (Dance) — ΔT 1.20
- Bonnie Royal — ΔT 1.22
- Eildon/Longniddry Blue Dress Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 4799. Earliest known date: 01/01/1980 A Dancers' Fancy from Dalgliesh. This appears under three different names - Longniddry #5486, Eildon #4799 and Harmony Eildon #87 (original Scottish Tartans Authority references). Needs resolving. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection. /Threadcount and colours aren't 100% original. Generated manually./ See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.23
- Clemens and August (Personal) — ΔT 1.24
- Torridon, Royal Blue (Dance) — ΔT 1.27
- MacPherson Dress (1951) — ΔT 1.31
- Torridon, Saphire (Dance) — ΔT 1.34
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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