New York Fire Department Pipe Band
Bands: KWGKBW · Stripes: K W G K DB LB K W G K DB LB
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3121
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1963 — New York Fire Department Pipe Band (register-of-tartans, record)
- Feb 1964 — New York Fire Dept. (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3121
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 60
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 60
Thread count
K/16 W4 G52 K44 DB44 LP/12

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 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LP | #A8ACE8 #A8ACE8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.23 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Rose Hunting — ΔT 0.66
- Rose Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1226. Earliest known date: 1831 First recorded in James Logan's, 'The Scottish Gael' in 1831. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.73
- Russell or Mitchell or Hunter or Galbraith — ΔT 0.82
- Galbraith — ΔT 0.90
- MacWilliam — ΔT 0.90
- Loudoun's Highlanders - 1747 #1 (Mil — ΔT 0.92
- Smith, Sir William (?) — ΔT 0.93
- MacFadzean/MacPhedran — ΔT 0.93
- New York, Firemen's Pipe Band — ΔT 0.96
- Bhatti (Name) — ΔT 0.97
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.
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