Aubigny
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 RKRKYKYKY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=127
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1992 — Aubigny (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Polly Wittering of House of Edgar for the French town of Aubigny-sur-Nere. Also recorded as Alliance France-Eccose, with a slightly different threadcount. The Alliance is said to be a French/Scottish Society located in La Maison des Associations (SIEGE), Orleans, France. Aubigny-sur-Nere is a short distance southeast of Orleans so these may be the same tartan but with some confusion as to the official title. Created using the Stewart of Atholl tartan and the colours of the Aubigny sur Nere town crest. The Stewart of Atholl tartan was used as the basis for this design because of the 16th century Chateau d'Aubigny-sur-Nere which was built by the Stewarts. The name arises from the Auld Alliance, a cultural and diplomatic treaty between Scotland and France, which was at its strongest during conflicts with England, the common enemy. - 1992 — Aubigny (District) (tartans-authority, record)
1992 design by Polly Wittering of House of Edgar in Perth, Scotland for the French town of Aubigny-sur-Nere. STA sample. This is also in the database as Alliance France-Eccose albeit with a slightly different thread count. The Alliance is said to be a French/Scottish Society located in La Maison des Associations (SIEGE), 45000, Orleans, France. Aubigny-sur-Nere is a short distance southeast of Orleans so these are obviously one and the same tartans but with some confusion as to the oficial title. Woven sample from Lasy Chrystel 18.5.15.
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: 127
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2159
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2159
Thread count
LY/40 K4 LY6 K4 LY8 K18 R36 K4 R/10
One full sett is 210 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/ly20k2ly3k2ly4k9r18k2r5~x2/