Penman Grey (Personal)

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 BWKBKBKWKR.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3318

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/2005 — Penman Grey (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed by Russell Penman of St Fillans for his graduation and wedding. Based on Kyle which is a family name but it also resembles the other Personal (USA) Penman tartan at #166 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference).
  • 2005 — Penman Grey (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed by Russell Penman of St Fillans for his graduation and wedding. Based on Kyle which is a family name but it also resembles the other Personal (USA) Penman tartan at #166.
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
2005 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

O/76 K8 W8 K8 N20 K8 N20 K8 W4 DP/6

One full sett is 250 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
N#5C5C5C #5C5C5Coklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9)
O#888888 #888888oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)

Sample pattern

O/76 K8 W8 K8 N20 K8 N20 K8 W4 DP/6 tartan

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

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