Nassau County Firefighters (P&D)
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 KWGRBRYRWK.
Part of the Nassau County Firefighters tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/7690/ — retired · Internet Archive copy
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2008 — Nassau County Firefighters (P&D) (tartans-authority, record)
The band used to wear the irish National tartan until 2004.5 when this new design was introduced to better represent the members of the Nassau County Fire Service. Rd is for the fire service, orange and blue for Nassau County, green for the Irish heritage, white for the fire service officers and black for fallen firefighters. - undated — Nassau County Firefighters Pipes & Drums (register-of-tartans, record)
The Nassau County Pipes and Drums used to wear the Irish National tartan until 2004-5 when this new design was introduced to better represent the members of the Nassau County Fire Service. Colours: red is for the fire service; orange and blue for Nassau County; green for the Irish heritage; white for the fire service officers and black for fallen firefighters.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2008 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references) - 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: 5689
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7690
Thread count
K/13 W13 R26 LO13 R20 DB13 R26 G22 W13 K/13
One full sett is 318 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s10/k13w13r26lo13r20db13r26g22w13k13/