Ainslie
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 BKBRBRWKW.
Part of the Ainslie tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=28
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1992 — Ainslie (register-of-tartans, record)
A sample of this tartan was entered in the Scottish Tartans Society files in the early 1980s by the designer of the tartan, Dr Philip Smith Jr. It is not present now or when the late Dr Gordon Teall of Teallach (President of the Scottish Tartans Society) designed the Ainslie TS2187 in 1992. The suspicion is that it may have been 'inadvertently removed' to make way for the newer one. - 1992 — Ainslie (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
C.M. 'Barney' Ainslie of Cumnor, Oxfordshire commissioned about eight designs from the Scottish Tartans Society in 1992 and had different branches of the family choose the favourite. One of the judges was a Gladys Ainslie who was 100 years old. This tartan No. 2187 was the clear winner. No. 2673 was in fact the original Ainslie tartan designed by Dr Phil Smith - and registered with the STS - over a decade before but it mysteriously disappeared from the records when Gordon Teall (then President of the STS) designed this one.
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
- 1992 (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: 28
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2187
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2187
Thread count
DB/48 K12 DB8 R8 DB8 R48 W8 K4 W/8
One full sett is 248 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s9/db12k3db2r2db2r12w2k1w2~x4/