Grampian Police
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 BKBKBKBKWWWB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1490
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2006 — Grampian Police (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Andrew Sinclair, Pipe Major and Drum Major (& kiltmaker) Bill Barclay of Grampian Police Pipe Band and House of Edgar designer Kirsty Anderson. Two shades of dark blue were used for the ground - one almost black to represent North Sea oil which has shaped the region's economy for so many years. A light blue was added to symbolise the seascapes and large skies of the Grampian Region and a thin white for the diced band worn by the police. - pre 2006 — Grampian Police (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Andrew Sinclair, Pipe Major and Drum Major (& kiltmaker) Bill Barclay of Grampian Police Pipe Band and House of Edgar designer Kirsty Anderson. Two shades of dark blue were used for the ground - one almost black to represent North Seal oil which has shaped the region's economy for so many years. A light blue was added to symbolise the seascapes and large skies of the Grampian Region and a thin white for the diced band worn by the police.
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
- 2006 (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: 1490
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6835
Thread count
DB/10 LB4 W2 LB4 K64 DB6 K8 DB58 K4 DBi2 K6 DB/6
One full sett is 332 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s12/db5lb2w1lb2k32db3k4db29k2dbi1k3db3x2db1404245-dbi1406275/