Good Conduct (USA)

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 BRKRWRWRWR.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10355

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 04/07/2010 — Good Conduct (USA) (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed to honour those who served in the Marine Corps, Army, National Guard, Navy, and or Coast Guard and were awarded the Good Conduct Medal by the US Military. Colours (relating to the colour of the medal ribbon): black represents self sacrifice and danger; the red and blue represent Marine Corps; solid red represents the Navy; red and white represents the Coast Guard; red and six white stripes represents the Army/Army National Guard.
  • 4th July 2010 — Good Conduct (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed to honour those who served in the Marine Corps, Army, National Guard, Navy, and or Coast Guard and were awarded the Good Conduct Medal, this tartan has not been authorised by the US Military. Colours: black represents self sacrifice and danger; the red and blue represent Marine Corps; solid red represents the Navy; red and white represents the Coast Guard; red and six white stripes represents the Army/Army National Guard.
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
04/07/2010 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DB/10 R24 K76 R8 W4 R4 W4 R4 W4 R/8

One full sett is 274 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

DB/10 R24 K76 R8 W4 R4 W4 R4 W4 R/8 tartan

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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