Ainslie
Bands: BKBRBRWKW · Stripes: DB K DB R DB R W K W DB K DB R DB R W K W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=28
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 28
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2187
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2187
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DB/48 K12 DB8 R8 DB8 R48 W8 K4 W/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Unnamed — ΔT 0.94
- Fazzolettone (Fashion?) — ΔT 0.99
- Ainslie — ΔT 1.04
- St. George's (Edinburgh) (School) — ΔT 1.08
- Duchess of Kent — ΔT 1.16
- Mercer, James (Personal) — ΔT 1.18
- Kyle, Grape (Dance) — ΔT 1.19
- Galloway Red — ΔT 1.20
- Memery (Reston, USA) — ΔT 1.21
- Mercer Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 3019. Earliest known date: 2004 Sent to House of Tartan by the owner. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.22
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.
ID: /setts/s9/db12k3db2r2db2r12w2k1w2~x4/