Pernel (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 KWRGRGRGGYGWRGRKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10098
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 14/09/2009 — Pernel (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was created for the designer's god-daughter, Ellior, her brother, Noah and her sister, Yaelle Pernel. The design is very similar to the Melieres-Frost tartan, with the addition of green and white (parted vert and argent) from their father's arms and yellow and green (parted or and vert) from their mother's arms. - pre 2009 — Pernel (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was created for the designer's god-daughter, Ellior, her brother, Noah and her sister, Yaelle Pernel. The design is very similar to the Melieres-Frost tartan, with the addition of green and silver from their father's arms and green from their mother's arms. For the personal use of Pernel de la Maison Blanche, their immediate relatives and their descendants.
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
- 14/09/2009 (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: 10098
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10098
Thread count
K/16 W2 R4 G32 R16 G16 R22 Y4 G4 LO2 G4 W4 R20 Y4 R4 K2 W/8
One full sett is 304 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| 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/s17/k8w1r2g16r8g8r11y2g2lo1g2w2r10y2r2k1w4~x2/