Mountain Rescue Association Honor Guard
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 KBKBKBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3031
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/2004 — Mountain Rescue Association Honor Guard (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Dr Phil Smith and chosen from a set of six by Tim Kovacs, Dave Moore and Neal Jeffers of the Mountain Rescue Association. Blue and white are the corporate colours of the Mountain Rescue Association representing the Alpine environment and the sky. The 14oz tartan is available for all members of the Mountain Rescue Association, is woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver and all tartan-wear is sold exclusively (Dec 2004) by Alexis Malcolm Kehm (www.alexismalcomkilts.com). www.mra.org - 2004 July — Mountain Rescue Assoc. (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Dr Phil Smith and chosen from a set of six by Tim Kovacs, Dave Moore and Neal Jeffers of the MRA. Blue and white are the corporate colours of the MRA representing the Alpine environment and the sky. The 14oz tartan is available for all members of the MRA, is woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver and all tartan-wear is sold exclusively (Dec 2004) by Alexis Malcolm Kehm (www.alexismalcomkilts.com). www.mra.org Only known tartan for a mountain rescue/ search & rescue association. Woven sample. Dr Phil Smith produced this design gratis in honour of his father Philip D Smith (1905-1979) who was one of the very first mountain climbers in the Rockies (1920s-1950s). He was the first Ranger hired in Grand Teton National Park when it was founded in 1927 and worked for the National Park Service until World War II began. Most of the first ascents in the Tetons were made by him and several 'firsts' (with Phil junior and his brother) in the Wind River Range, highest in Wyoming. There are at least two mountains named after him. He was rescuing stranded climbers or retrieving dead ones as late as 1952. He was the author of several books on mountaineering in the Tetons and his book 'Knots for Mountaineering' was chosen as a basic book by the Swiss Army.
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
- 01/07/2004 (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: 3031
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6311
Thread count
K/64 T4 K12 T4 K26 N60 W/4
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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.
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