Penman
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 BBGGBGGBBKRKGB.
Part of the Penman tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3316
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1979 — Penman (register-of-tartans, record)
Procured from the design by W Penman. Threadcount doubled to show sett more clearly. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Dalgety Collection. - 1979 — Penman (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Threadcount doubled to show sett more clearly. The original #166 Penman was deleted 26.3.05 because of an incorrect threadcount. This count taken from the weaver's ticket. Design submitted and accepted by the STS in August 1979. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection. Customer was a W.W.C.Penman, 18 Stobo, Calderwood, East Kilbride, G74 3HL. Now assumed to be 'Name.'
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
- 1979 (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: 3316
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 166
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 166
Thread count
N/44 T24 DG24 Y4 T8 Y4 DG24 T24 N24 K2 R12 K4 DG20 T/20
One full sett is 412 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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/n22t12dg12y2t4y2dg12t12n12k1r6k2dg10t10~x2/