Metro Detroit Police & Fire P &
In pattern RBRKBKBKBRWBR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2942
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2003 — Metro Detroit Police & Fire P & (register-of-tartans, record)
- 2003 — Metro Detroit Police & Fire (P&D) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
R/18 DB6 R18 K36 DB18 K4 DB18 K4 DB18 R12 W2 DB2 R/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C8002C #C8002C | R #C80000 | 0.03 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F4F4F0 | 0.03 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacInroy (Wedding) (Personal) — ΔT 0.92
- MacLachlan #3 — ΔT 1.10
- Skene of Cromar — ΔT 1.21
- Black and Red — ΔT 1.25
- Army Medical Services — ΔT 1.28
- Bonner (Bonnar) Family Tartan Tartan Number: 285. Earliest known date: 1930 MacKinlay (Fractional scale). Meaning 'gentle' (from the french) or `Bona res...' A good thing, this reputedly spoken by the King of France after a very un-gentle act of war on the part of Guilhen de Bonares as he was called thereafter. (Guilhen de Bonares is recorded in Perthshire c.1200) Coulson Bonnar was a tatan collecter c1930-1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.29
- Scottish Heritage Preservation (Corp — ΔT 1.31
- Frankfurt & Disttrict P & D (Corpora — ΔT 1.31
- MacInroy — ΔT 1.33
- Fraser of Lovat Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 391. Earliest known date: 1893 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893), contains a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest and antiquity. The author was D.W. Stewart. Lord Lovat, 84 year old war veteran and chief of the Frasers of Lovat, died in March 1995. His grandson, Simon Fraser, became the 25th chief of the clan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.36
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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