MPS Emerald Society NCLEES 2012
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 GGGBWG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10711
Provenance
Earliest known date: 5 October 2012 The Metropolitan Police Emerald Society was formed in 2005 and was the first law enforcement organisation from outside North America to be admitted to membership of NCLEES (National Conference of Law Enforcement Emerald Societies). During October 2012 in London, the MPS Emerald Society hosted the annual NCLEES Conference, the first time the conference has been held outside the USA. The Metropolitan Police Emerald Society tartan was designed to commemorate this historic occasion. Colours: two shades of green for the national colour of Ireland; two shades of blue - dark blue for the Thin Blue Line of Police Officers everywhere and light blue for the river Thames that flows through the City of London; yellow in recognition of the saffron kilts worn by MPS Emerald Society Pipe Band.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/10/2012 — MPS Emerald Society NCLEES 2012 (register-of-tartans, record)
The Metropolitan Police Emerald Society was formed in 2005 and was the first law enforcement organisation from outside North America to be admitted to membership of NCLEES (National Conference of Law Enforcement Emerald Societies). During October 2012 in London, the MPS Emerald Society hosted the annual NCLEES Conference, the first time the conference has been held outside the USA. The Metropolitan Police Emerald Society tartan was designed to commemorate this historic occasion. Colours: two shades of green for the national colour of Ireland; two shades of blue - dark blue for the Thin Blue Line of Police Officers everywhere and light blue for the river Thames that flows through the City of London; yellow in recognition of the saffron kilts worn by MPS Emerald Society Pipe Band. - 5 October 2012 — MPS Emerald Society NCLEES 2012 Commemorative 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
- 01/10/2012 (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: 10711
Thread count
Y/8 DG60 G30 DB10 LB20 Y/8
One full sett is 256 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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.
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