Blue Knights, The
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 GBBBBBBYW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=303
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/10/2005 — Blue Knights, The (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Helen Marshall of Marton Mills for the Blue Knights International Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club. For the exclusive use of members of the Blue Knights. The tartan has been incorporated into the bye-laws of the organisation and all profits from sales go to the Knights chosen charities. Marton Mills has exclusive weaving rights. - 2005 October — Blue Knights, The (Corporate)) (tartans-authority, record)
The Blue Knights ? International Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club is a 20,000 strong organisation and their tartan has been designed by Helen Marshall of Marton Mills, Yorkshire for the exclusive use of members of the Blue Knights?. The tartan has been incorporated into the bye-laws of the organisation and all profits from sales go to the Knights' chosen charities. Marton Mills has exclusive weaving rights and the tartan is only available to members through Blue Knights? Scotland at philteese@yahoo.co.uk
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
- 01/10/2005 (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: 303
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6981
Thread count
W/6 LG30 DB12 DBi4 DB2 DBi4 DB2 DBi42 Y/4
One full sett is 202 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #2888C4 #2888C4 | oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5) |
| LG | #82D67A #82D67A | oklch(80.1% 0.150 142.2) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #1C1C50 #1C1C50 | oklch(26.2% 0.093 277.9) |
| LB | #98C8E8 #98C8E8 | oklch(81.0% 0.068 237.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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.
ID: /variants/s9/w3lg15db6dbi2db1dbi2db1dbi21y2x2db1004274-dbi1406275/