Purdy Black (Illinois)
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 BWKWKBWKBWKBWKBWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10587
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 20/01/2011 — Purdy Black (Illinois) (register-of-tartans, record)
Created as a family tartan for R Scott Purdy (St Charles, Illinois, US). The designer is happy for anyone sharing the surname Purdy to wear this tartan. - 20/01/2011 — Purdy Black (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Created as a family tartan for R Scott Purdy (St Charles, Illinois, US). The designer is happy for anyone sharing the surname Purdy to wear this tartan.
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
- 20/01/2011 (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: 10587
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10587
Thread count
K/40 W2 DP4 K8 W2 DP6 K8 W2 DP8 K8 W2 DP10 K6 W2 K108 W2 DP/12
One full sett is 408 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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.
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