Spirit of Alba
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 BGBBGBGBW.
Part of the Spirit of Alba 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=3862
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2001 Designed by Claire Donaldson of the House of Edgar for Robert Nicol of Perth & Dunfermline.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 19/09/2001 — Spirit of Alba (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Claire Donaldson of the House of Edgar for Robert Nicol of Perth & Dunfermline for kilt fabric. - Oct. 2001 — Spirit of Alba (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Claire Donaldson of the House of Edgar for Robert Nicol of Perth & Dunfermline. - 2001 — Spirit of Alba Fashion Weavers Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 19/09/2001 (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: 3862
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3904
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2846
Thread count
LB/8 DBi38 G2 DB4 G4 DB36 DP48 G2 DBi/4
One full sett is 280 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as DBi/4 G2 DP48 DB36 G4 DB4 G2 DBi38 LB8 DBi38 G2 DB4 G4 DB36 DP48 G/2 — 554 threads; it folds to the canonical 280-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
Sample pattern
ID: /variants/s9/lb4dbi19g1db2g2db18dp24g1dbi2x2dbi3514276-db2911276/