U.S. Law Enforcement
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 GKBBBBBBBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4186
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/04/2007 — U.S. Law Enforcement (register-of-tartans, record)
To represent the police departments who maintain the security and safety of our citizens.' John A Yestrebsky of the City of Lafayette Indiana Police Department, collaborated with Linda Clifford on the design. A portion of the tartan sales proceeds, will be donated to a national non-profit organisation that represents the interests of the police officers and their families. Azur is for the 'thin blue line'. Navy blue for the police uniform. Red for the ultimate sacrifice. Grey is for the streets and Royal Blue represents police unity. - April 2007 — U.S. Law Enforcement (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
"To represent the police departments who maintain the security and safety of our citizens." John A Yestrebsky of the City of Lafayette Indiana Police Department, collaborated with Linda Clifford on the design. A portion of the tartan sales proceeds, will be donated to a national non-profit organisation that represents the interests of the police officers and their families. Azure is for the 'thin blue line'. Navy blue for the police uniform. Red for the ultimate sacrifice. Grey is for the streets and Royal Blue represents police unity.
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
- 01/04/2007 (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: 4186
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7173
Thread count
Y/8 K6 DB12 DBi8 DB114 N6 DB6 N6 DB6 R/6
One full sett is 342 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
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/s10/y4k3db6dbi4db57n3db3n3db3r3x2db1204274-dbi1406275/