Duke of Perth - 1739 Portrait
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 KRKRGYGYGRKRYR.
Part of the Duke of Perth 1739 tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from research. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://tartandictionary.org/paintings/duke-of-perth-portrait/
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Our own research
- licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- captured
- 2025-11-01
Thread count
K/32 R14 K8 R14 DG34 LY2 DG10 LY2 DG34 R64 K10 R8 LY2 R/10
One full sett is 446 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LY | #B98B3B #B98B3B | oklch(66.6% 0.111 78.5) |
| K | #0E060C #0E060C | oklch(13.8% 0.020 335.4) |
| R | #A63012 #A63012 | oklch(48.6% 0.159 34.6) |
| DG | #3E3E21 #3E3E21 | oklch(35.6% 0.046 108.5) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s14/k16r7k4r7dg17ly1dg5ly1dg17r32k5r4ly1r5x2k1402336-r4816036-dg3505108-ly6611078/