Damson
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 BGBGBYBGYBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=887
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Damson (register-of-tartans, record)
Fraser & Kirkbright say (September 2002) it was made for Aljean. - pre 2002 — Damson (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Fraser & Kirkbright say (Sept 2002) it was made for Aljean.. Aljean - women's clothes retailer in Vancouver Canada traded under Aljean name from 1950-2012.
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
- 2002 (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: 887
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4658
Thread count
DB/96 G8 DB12 Y4 DB4 LR4 DB4 G20 LR12 DB4 LR/10
One full sett is 250 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/s11/db48g4db6y2db2lr2db2g10lr6db2lr5~x2/