Parr
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 BRBRBKGWGK.
Part of the Parr tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3297
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1985 — Parr (register-of-tartans, record)
Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. Thread count halved to show sett. Assumed fashion although Tartans Society records categorise as 'Family'. Can be regarded as both. Colours lightened to show sett. Date from NOMINDEX. Produced By West Coast Woolen Mills B.C.Canada - 1985 — Parr (white lines) (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Thread count halved to show sett. Assumed fashion although Tartans Society records categorise as 'Family'. Can be regarded as both. Colours lightened to show sett. Date from NOMINDEX.
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
- 1985 (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: 3297
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 439
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 439
Thread count
T/106 R3 T4 R6 T8 K28 G8 W4 G12 K/8
One full sett is 260 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s10/t106r3t4r6t8k28g8w4g12k8/