City of Rome Italian Corporate Tartan
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 BKBGBKBKYRYKBKBGBKBK.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=6697
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2005 The background of black and navy blue are the colours of the Italian national football team. Gold for the Vatican and orange & maroon are the official colours of Rome. The City of Rome Pipe Band was formed in October 2000 and has grown by 2005 to 11 pipers and 7 drummers. It is the first Pipe Band in Italy and is very popular at various events in the country. The City of Rome authorities have agreed that the tartan be regarded as the Citys official tartan.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 2005 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
K/88 DB45 K6 DB6 Y6 DB6 K6 DB45 K88 LO6 R12 LO6 K88 DB45 K6 DB6 Y6 DB6 K6 DB/45
One full sett is 923 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| 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/s11/k88db45k6db6y6db6k6db45k88lo6r12~db1406275/