Pringle (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 BGYGKBYBWBW.
Part of the Pringle tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5447
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- circa 1988 — Pringle (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed c.1988 by Tony Murray and woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. Personal tartan for Malcolm Pringle (of Messrs James Pringle of Inverness) The Pringle family hold exclusive rights. - 01/01/1998 — Pringle #2 (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Kenny Dalgliesh of Selkirk designed and wove this circa 1998 as a personal tartan for someone of the name Pringle.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- circa 1988 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 3411
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5447
Thread count
DR/6 G64 LY4 G4 K6 DT4 LY4 DT56 LB4 DT4 LB/6
One full sett is 312 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
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/s11/dr3g32ly2g2k3dt2ly2dt28lb2dt2lb3~x2/