Alaskan Scottish
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 WBGBGBGBRBGBRBGBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10851
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 15/01/1991 — Alaskan Scottish (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in 1991 by Alice Dillbeck for the Alaskan Scottish Club, a non-profit organization established to promote the Scottish culture, heritage and teachings to the people of Alaska. Colours: rose reflects a winter sunset on Denali’s (Mount McKinley) lofty top, a summer offer of shooting stars, and wild rose hips; green suggests magnificent forests, short stalk sedge, lingonberry, and saxifrage; gold recalls the great North Star, the miners’ golden dream, tamarack, birch, and aspen mirrored in a stream; white the ice, the snow, the lights of the Auroras; blue is for the sky, forget-me-nots, the open sea, the deep cold azure of lakes, the glaciers’ mysterious hue and for the Scottish origins of many Alaskans. - 1991 — Alaskan Scottish (tartans-authority, record)
Designed in 1991 by Alice Dillbeck for the Alaskan Scottish Club, a non-profit organization established to promote the Scottish culture, heritage and teachings to the people of Alaska. Colours: rose reflects a winter sunset on Denali?s (Mount McKinley) lofty top, a summer offer of shooting stars, and wild rose hips; green suggests magnificent forests, short stalk sedge, lingonberry, and saxifrage; gold recalls the great North Star, the miners? golden dream, tamarack, birch, and aspen mirrored in a stream; white the ice, the snow, the lights of the Auroras; blue is for the sky, forget-me-nots, the open sea, the deep cold azure of lakes, the glaciers? mysterious hue and for the Scottish origins of many Alaskans.
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
- 15/01/1991 (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: 10851
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10851
Thread count
W/8 DB2 G18 DB18 R18 DB2 Y8 DB2 R18 DB18 G2 DB2 G2 DB2 G8 DB2 W/8
One full sett is 260 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s17/w4db1g9db9r9db1y4db1r9db9g1db1g1db1g4db1w4~x2/