Perry / Pirrie (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 GKWRK.
Part of the Perry tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3324
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1982 A modern family tartan designed in 1981 for Dr J.R. Perry, Alberta, Canada. The name is most common in Aberdeen and Banffshire, although for many generations there have been several families of this name in and around the Wigtonshire area of Galloway. Various spellings include Pirrie, Pere, and Pire.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1981 — Perry / Pirrie (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Ross Henderson of Stirling and Dr John Ralph Perry of Alberta. Sett based on Rob Roy. Woven by D.C. Dalgliesh. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection. - 1982 — Perry (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Ross Henderson of Stirling and Dr John Ralph Perry of Alberta. Sett based on Rob Roy. Woven by D C Dalgliesh. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection. There was also an identical sett called 'Dress' at #1214 with maroon in place of red, removed as these are shades of the same colour - 1982 — Perry Pirrie Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Perry, Pirrie (weddslist, record)
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
- 1981 (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: 3324
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1212
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1212
Thread count
K/150 R52 W4 K8 Y/10
One full sett is 288 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 1.18 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s5/k75r26w2k4y5~x2/