Metro Detroit Police & Fire P &
Bands: RBRKBKBKBRWBR · Stripes: R DB R K DB K DB K DB R W DB R R DB R K DB K DB K DB R W DB R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2942
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2003 — Metro Detroit Police & Fire P & (register-of-tartans, record)
- 2003 — Metro Detroit Police & Fire (P&D) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2942
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6030
Thread count
R/18 DB6 R18 K36 DB18 K4 DB18 K4 DB18 R12 W2 DB2 R/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C8002C #C8002C | R #CC0000 | 0.03 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacInroy (Wedding) (Personal) — ΔT 0.93
- MacLachlan #3 — ΔT 1.10
- Skene of Cromar — ΔT 1.22
- Black and Red — ΔT 1.25
- Army Medical Services — ΔT 1.29
- Scottish Heritage Preservation (Corp — ΔT 1.31
- Frankfurt & Disttrict P & D (Corpora — ΔT 1.31
- Great Dane, The — ΔT 1.36
- Skene of Cromar - 1950 (Clan) — ΔT 1.37
- St. George's (Edinburgh) (School) — ΔT 1.39
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s13/r9db3r9k18db9k2db9k2db9r6w1db1r4~x2/