Pars, Dress (Sports)
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 KWKWKWKWRWKWKW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3834
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1998 — Pars, Dress (Sports) (tartans-authority, record)
This started life in 1998 as the Dundermline Athletic F.C. tartan (also known as the Pars). Its design was a collaboration between Charlie Brine (proprietor of the Dunfermline Kilt Co.,and an ex-Pars player in 1969) and the Strathmore Woollen Company of Forfar. Charlie then re-categorised this one as the Dress version and had the new one at 7538 designed. No-one knows from where the nickname of 'Pars' appeared although there are many amusing and fanciful explanations to be found on the club wesbite. - undated — Pars, Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
This started life in 1998 as the Dunfermline Athletic Football Club tartan (also known as the Pars). Its design was a collaboration between Charlie Brine (proprietor of the Dunfermline Kilt Co., and an ex-Pars player in 1969) and the Strathmore Woollen Company of Forfar. Charlie then re-categorsied this one as the Dress version and designed the new team one. No-one knows from where the nickname of 'Pars' appeared although there are many amusing and fanciful explanations to be found on the club website.
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
- 1998 (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: 5125
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3834
Thread count
W/20 K2 W10 K14 W14 R4 W14 K100 W14 K4 W14 K14 W10 K/2
One full sett is 450 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/w10k1w5k7w7r2w7k50w7k2w7k7w5k1~x2/