Pierce
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 RBRGYRYRYGRY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3336
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2000 — Pierce (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for Dr. Albert Pierce by Phil Smith, February 2000. Applicable to all of the surname 'Pierce', 'Pearce', 'Pearse', and other spellings. Colours from Phil Smith graphic. - Aug. 2000 — Pierce (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed for Dr. Albert Pierce by Phil Smith, February 2000. Applicable to all of the surname "Pierce", "Pearce", "Pearse", and other spellings. Colours from Phil Smith graphic.
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
- 2000 (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: 3336
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4150
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2716
Thread count
O/12 DR8 O48 DG28 LY18 O6 LY6 O6 LY18 DG48 O18 LY/12
One full sett is 432 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
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/s12/o6dr4o24dg14ly9o3ly3o3ly9dg24o9ly6~x2/