Asman, Day Tan (Name)
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 GKGYWKWRYYY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3529
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2002 Based on a design by Phil Smith, woven by Peter MacDonald at the suggestion of David Asman for whom the original design was done. Intended for "day" wear. "Tan" is the name of the light brown colour.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2002 — Asman, Day Tan (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Based on a design by Phil Smith, woven by Peter MacDonald at the suggestion of David Asman for whom the original design was done. Assumed this is personal. - 2002 — Asman Day Tan Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Asman, Day Tan (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on a design by Phil Smith, woven by Peter MacDonald at the suggestion of David Asman for whom the original design was done.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2002 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5273
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3529
Thread count
G/8 K4 G36 LY12 LB4 K12 LB4 R12 LY36 LO4 LY/8
One full sett is 264 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/g2k1g9ly3lb1k3lb1r3ly9lo1ly2~x4/