Ontario Provincial 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 BRBWBKBGBKBGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10019
Provenance
Earliest known date: Feb. 2009 Designed by Davd Brown and Fiona Hall (Lochcarron) for the Ontario Provincial Police Force. Subject to an exclusive contract between Lochcarron's Canadian company (Burnetts & Struth) and the police force.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 05/02/2009 — Ontario Provincial Police (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan has been created to celebrate the centenary of the Ontario Provincial Police. - Feb. 2009 — Ontario Provincial Police (Corporate (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Davd Brown and Fiona Hall (Lochcarron) for the Ontario Provincial Police Force. Subject to an exclusive contract between Lochcarron's Canadian company (Burnetts & Struth) and the police force. - undated — Ontario Provincial Police Canadian Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 05/02/2009 (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: 10019
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10019
Thread count
DB/36 R4 DB4 W4 DB8 K40 DB32 DG8 DB32 K40 DB40 Y4 LB/8
One full sett is 476 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s13/db9r1db1w1db2k10db8dg2db8k10db10y1lb2~x4/