Field Gun Association
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 GGGWGWGGGGGGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10036
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 13/10/2008 — Field Gun Association (register-of-tartans, record)
Fleet Air Arm Ex-Field Gun Association (field guns are the type of guns pulled by horses). The design is predominantly green, as green is the colour used by the Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Crew when it performed at Earls Court during the Royal Tournament. The performances finished in 1999. Gold, red and blue are all colours which appear in the Association crest. - Oct. 2008 — Field Gun Association (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Fleet Air Arm Ex-Field Gun Association (field guns are the type of guns pulled by horses). The design is predominantly green, as green is the colour used by the Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Crew when it performed at Earls Court during the Royal Tournament. The performances finished in 1999. Gold, red and blue are all colours which appear in the Association crest. Intended for the use of members of the Fleet Air Arm Ex Field Gun Association. Developed for weaving by House of Tartan, Comrie, Scotland.
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
- 13/10/2008 (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: 10036
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10036
Thread count
R/4 DG24 G6 DG4 G4 DG4 G32 LB8 DG24 W2 G16 DG28 Y/4
One full sett is 312 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/r2dg12g3dg2g2dg2g16lb4dg12w1g8dg14y2~x2/