Peeper

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 RGGYGYGYKRKGYGYRGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGY.

Part of the Peeper tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 46 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3312

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/2006 — Peeper (register-of-tartans, record)
    A tartan designed for Quinn Peeper, of New Orleans, Louisiana. May be used by any of the name Peeper. He also had designed a 'Peeper Check.'
  • 2006 — Peeper (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
    A tartan designed for Quinn Peeper, of New Orleans, Louisiana. May be used by any of the name Peeper. He also had designed a "Peeper Check."
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
2006 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

O/8 G18 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 K2 O16 K2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 O12 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY/2

One full sett is 266 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)

Sample pattern

O/8 G18 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 K2 O16 K2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 O12 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY2 Y2 LY/2 tartan

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