Parker Black (2009)
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 KRBGKWBBRGKBWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10092
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 22/09/2009 — Parker Black (2009) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Ronald Parker to commemorate his Scottish heritage and his success in learning to play the pipes. This tartan may be used by all of the name of Parker. - 20th Sept. 2009 — Parker, Black (2009) (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Listing submitted 20th September 2009 and then received from National Archives. Designed by Ronald Parker of Joshua, Texas to commemorate his learning to play the bagpipes. Can be used by all of the name Paker.
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
- 22/09/2009 (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: 10092
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10092
Thread count
K/30 R3 DB10 Y3 K40 LB5 N5 DB8 R3 Y5 K25 DB8 LB8 K/5
One full sett is 281 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s14/k30r3db10y3k40lb5n5db8r3y5k25db8lb8k5/