Summer Spirit

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 GKYKYKYRYKYKYK.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4038

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/12/2005 — Summer Spirit (register-of-tartans, record)
    From the House of Edgar for ACS Clothing of Glasgow for use in their clothing range. Woven sample. The white shown here should be slightly creamier.
  • 2005 December — Summer Spirit (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
    From the House of Edgar designed by Kirsty Anderson of House of Edgar.for ACS Clothing of Glasgow for use in their clothing range. Woven sample. The white shown here should be slightly creamier.
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
01/12/2005 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

Y/4 K2 LR18 K16 LR56 K4 LR4 R4 LR4 K4 LR56 K16 LR18 K/2

One full sett is 410 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#E8CCB8 #E8CCB8oklch(86.3% 0.042 57.7)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F8F8F8 #F8F8F8oklch(97.9% 0.000 89.9)
LR#FF9C97 #FF9C97oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

Y/4 K2 LR18 K16 LR56 K4 LR4 R4 LR4 K4 LR56 K16 LR18 K/2 tartan

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.

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