Ancient Atlantic (Fashion)
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 WBBBGY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1781
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1959 — Ancient Atlantic (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
- 01/01/1964 — Ancient Atlantic (SINDEX) (register-of-tartans, record)
From JCT files, giving source as Miss K Sinclair, February 1968 as does Sindex. Tony Murray (June 2007) says designed by Sol Gillis in 1964. An alternative version only uses four colours in the threadcount. It is not known which is correct.
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
- 1959 (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: 72
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1781
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1781
Thread count
LB/6 DB34 DO32 DT4 DG34 LO/4
One full sett is 218 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/s6/lb3db17do16dt2dg17lo2~x2/