Inches of Perth
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 GGKBGRKWGWKRGBKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1819
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 A philanthropic society founded by Scots around 1840. The tartan was designed to mark the 150th anniversary. The colours represent the State of Illinois Flag, the Chicago sports teams and the St Andrew's flag.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1920 — Inches of Perth (register-of-tartans, record)
No details of this tartan which was discovered in 1985 in the Paton Collection when it was first loaned to the Scottish Tartans Society. It could be family (there is a family jewellers in Perth called Hamilton & Inches) or it could be connected with two areas known as the 'Inches of Perth' (an Inch is a stretch of low lying land near a river.) 'Folk say the Mercers tried to cheat the town. When for two Inches they did win six feet.' This alludes to the exchange of the two Inches of Perth (where the famous clan battle was fought in 1396) for the right to be buried in St. John's Church, Perth. - pre 2003 — Inches of Perth Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- circa 1920s? — Inches of Perth (District or Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
No details of this tartan which was discovered in 1985 in the Paton Collection when it was first loaned to the Tartans Society. It could be family (there is a family jewellers in Perth called Hamilton & Inches) or it could be connected with two areas known as the "Inches of Perth" (an Inch is a stretch of low lying land near a river.) 'Folk say the Mercers tried to cheat the town. When for two Inches they did win six feet.' This alludes to the exchange of the two Inches of Perth (where the famous clan battle was fought in 1396) for the right to be buried in St. John's Church, Perth.
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
- 1920 (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: 1819
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1753
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1753
Thread count
DY/88 Y4 K8 DP4 DY30 R12 K6 LB6 Y4 LB6 K6 R12 DY30 DP4 K8 Y/4
One full sett is 372 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/dy44y2k4dp2dy15r6k3lb3y2~x2/