US Army Civil Affairs
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 BKYKGRKGKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10255
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 14/06/2010 — US Army Civil Affairs (register-of-tartans, record)
The primary colours of the tartan, green and black, represent the US Army as a whole: purple and white are specific to Civil Affairs and reflect their shoulder patch; they are outlined in gold to signify the purity of their purpose and their warrior ethic, and represent Civil Affairs lineage and heritage tracing back to the 95th Military Government Group, activated on 25th August 1945. They stand alone to reflect the fact that Civil Affairs is a separate branch and quite often operates in an isolated fashion. Finally, the black and red have been woven to flank all of the colours. This is in remembrance of fallen and departed comrades from Civil Affairs whose deeds and actions in the past have directed the future. Tartan approved by Colonel James J Wolff, Commander of the only Civil Affairs formation in the active component of the US Army and the senior officer of the Civil Affairs regiment in the regular army. - 14th June 2010 — US Army Civil Affairs (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
The primary colours of the tartan, green and black, represent the US Army as a whole: purple and white are specific to Civil Affairs and reflect their shoulder patch; they are outlined in gold to signify the purity of their purpose and their warrior ethic, and represent Civil Affairs lineage and heritage tracing back to the 95th Military Government Group, activated on 25th August 1945. They stand alone to reflect the fact that Civil Affairs is a separate branch and quite often operates in an isolated fashion. Finally, the black and red have been woven to flank all of the colours. This is in remembrance of fallen and departed comrades from Civil Affairs whose deeds and actions in the past have directed the future. Only members of CA that hold the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) of 38A or 38B. They can prove this by submitting a DD214 or ERB/ORB with everything blacked out except Name and MOS to protect their privacy. For approval, please contact: Stephen Starbuck 45 Stonewall Court Spring Lake, NC 28390 910-728-7313 stephen.starbuck@us.army.mil Kilts and products from this tartan may only be made by USA Kilts, Inc. www.USAKilts.com
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
- 14/06/2010 (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: 10255
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10255
Thread count
DP/6 K2 LY6 K60 G60 R6 K25 Y4 K2 W/6
One full sett is 342 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| 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/s10/dp6k2ly6k60g60r6k25y4k2w6/