PSD: Operation Iraqi Freedom
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 KGGGBKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3417
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2006 — PSD: Operation Iraqi Freedom (register-of-tartans, record)
This asymmetric tartan was designed by Matthew Newsome of the Tartans Museum in Franklin, North Carolina, USA. It was commissioned by 'The Baghdad 12' (listed on file in Franklin) in January of 2006, to commemorate the service of the Private Military Contractors serving as Personal Security Detail (PSD) during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The colours in this tartan were chosen for their particular symbolism to the PSD members: 'Brown and tan represent the Iraqi desert we served in; green is for the new Iraq we strive to create; the red is the blood we shed; and the black is the life of our friends laid down for our mission.' PSD members, direct support staff, and immediate family are authorized to wear this tartan. - 2006 — PSD: Operation Iraqi Freedom (Milita (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. This asymmetric tartan, designed by Matthew Newsome of the Tartans Museum in Franklin, North Carolina, USA. It was commissioned by "The Baghdad 12" (listed on file in Franklin) in January of 2006, to commemorate the service of the Private Military Contractors serving as Personal Security Detail during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The colors in this tartan were chosen for their particular symbolism to the PSD members: "Brown and tan represent the Iraqi desert we served in; green is for the new Iraq we strive to create; the red is the blood we shed; and the black is the life of our friends laid down for our mission." PSD members, direct support staff, and immediate family are authorized to wear this tartan.
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
- 2006 (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: 3417
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6877
Thread count
K/8 Y4 DG48 Y48 DR48 K4 R/8
One full sett is 320 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/k2y1dg12y12dr12k1r2~x4/