Gloucester County Pipe Band (Corp)
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 GBGRKBR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7539
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- circa 2002 — Gloucester County Pipe Band (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
Organised by Linda Clifford and woven by Strathmore Woollen Co. for the Gloucester County Pipe Band from New Jersey whose website reads: "In June 2001, the GCES tartan, called Memoriam was designed by founding member, President Jack Manning, and submitted to the Public Registry for registration. Each color in the tartan represents the emergency services professions that make up the Society and is transected by a single black line in memory of those who have fallen. The colors are surrounded by green which signifies our common bond, our Irish Heritage." The Gloucester County Emerald Society was founded in May, 2000; - undated — Gloucester County Pipe Band (register-of-tartans, record)
Organised by Linda Clifford and woven by Strathmore Woollen Co. for the Gloucester County Pipe Band from New Jersey whose website reads: "In June 2001, the GCES tartan, called Memoriam was designed by founding member, President Jack Manning, and submitted to the Public Registry for registration. Each color in the tartan represents the emergency services professions that make up the Society and is transected by a single black line in memory of those who have fallen. The colors are surrounded by green which signifies our common bond, our Irish Heritage." The Gloucester County Emerald Society was founded in May, 2000;
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- circa 2002 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5574
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7539
Thread count
DG/108 DB28 Y14 R28 K14 DB28 R/12
One full sett is 344 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s7/dg54db14y7r14k7db14r6~x2/