National Defense
Bands: RWBWRY · Stripes: R W DB W R LY R W DB W R LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10097
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/03/2009 — National Defense (register-of-tartans, record)
- 13th March 2009 — National Defense (Unauthorised) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — National Defense Commemorative Tartan Tartan Number: 10097. Earliest known date: 13th March 2009 Designed by Mark Wright of The Frugal Corner in the USA to honour all those who had been awarded the US Military National Defense Medal and is based on the ribbon colours of that medal. The application reads, "to honour all those who have served in defence of their country." See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 10097
Thread count
DR/80 W4 B4 W4 DR2 Y/40

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #0000CD #0000CD | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DR | #8B0000 #8B0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.14 |
| W | #FFFFFF #FFFFFF | W #F7F7F7 | 0.02 |
| Y | #E6B426 #E6B426 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.04 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
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- MacGregor — ΔT 1.31
- MacGregor - 1800 (Clan) — ΔT 1.32
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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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