AIton - 1979 (Clan)
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 BKGKBKGR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=328
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1979 — AIton - 1979 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This version was woven in the Occupational Therapy Department at Bellsdyke Hospital in Larbert, near Falkirk. The Aiton Family Society was formalised through the Lord Lyon in 1996. They adopted this tartan which was an unused ''noted'' one on the Scottish Tartans Society register. This Aiton Society excludes persons with the name spelt with an ''R''. Present website is inactive (http://aytonfamilysociety.users.btopenworld.com/) but links should appear soon to a new one. (This note written Ayg. 2010). - 01/01/1997 — Aiton/Ayton (register-of-tartans, record)
This version woven in Bellsdyke Hospital, Occupational Therapy Department. The Aiton Family Society was formalised through the Lord Lyon in 1996. They adopted this tartan which was an unused ''noted'' one on the Scottish Tartans Society register. This Aiton Society excludes persons with the name spelt with an ''R''. - undated — Aiton (weddslist, record)
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
- 1979 (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: 31
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 328
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 328
Thread count
DB/12 K2 G6 K2 DB6 K2 G20 R/6
One full sett is 94 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s8/db6k1g3k1db3k1g10r3~x2/