Firefighters
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 KYKWRKRWKRKRYW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1188
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/2005 — Firefighters (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Linda Clifford (Scottish & Irish Merchant of Bethel, Maine) and Heather Yellowley of Strathmore Woollen Co., Forfar and represents the firefighters who risk their lives to save others. A portion of the proceeds from the tartan will be donated to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF). In the event of Linda Clifford or her company no longer being able to handle the tartan, the ownership will pass to the NFFF. - 2005 July — Firefighters (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Linda Clifford (Scottish & Irish Merchant of Bethel, Maine) and Heather Yellowley of Strathmore Woollen Co., Forfar and represents the firefighters who risk their lives to save others. A portion of the proceeds from the tartan will be donated to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Now handled by Strathmore WoollllenIn the event of Linda Clifford or her company no longer being able to handle the tartan, the ownership will pass to the NFFF. www.lindaclifford.com
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
- 01/07/2005 (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: 1188
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6684
Thread count
K/182 LY6 K22 W4 R6 K4 R6 W4 K6 R12 K6 R6 LY6 W/6
One full sett is 364 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s14/k91ly3k11w2r3k2r3w2k3r6k3r3ly3w3~x2/