Firefighters' Memorial
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 BKBKBKYKGKRKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1189
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/2007 — Firefighters' Memorial (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed as a salute to firefighters everywhere in the world, who are ready to sacrifice their lives every day for the protection of others. It was designed to memorialize those firefighters who have already made the ultimate sacrifice. The red background represents fire and the fire trucks. Black is in remembrance of those who have fallen in the line of duty. Green and gold represent the Irish community which has strong ties with the organization and the fire fighting occupation. Lastly, the three red lines in the middle of each square are 3 red threads, 4 red threads and three red threads - representing the 343 NYFD firefighters who lost their lives on 11th September 2001 - the largest number of firefighters who ever perished in a single day in the history of the United States. A portion of all sales of this tartan will be donated to Firefighters' charities. - July 2007 — Firefighters' Memorial (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
"Designed as a salute to firefighters everywhere in the world, who are ready to sacrifice their lives every day for the protection of others. It was designed to memorialize those firefighters who have already made the ultimate sacrifice. The red background represents fire and the fire trucks. Black is in remembrance of those who have fallen in the line of duty. Green and gold represent the Irish community which has strong ties with the organization and the fire fighting occupation. Lastly, the three red lines in the middle of each square are 3 red threads, 4 red threads and three red threads - representing the 343 NYFD firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11 (11th September 2001) - the largest number of firefighters who ever perished in a single day in the history of the United States. A portion of all sales of this tartan will be donated to Firefighters' charities." Rocky Roeger, www.USAKilts.com Woven sample.
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
- 01/07/2007 (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: 1189
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7339
Thread count
DR/4 K4 DR65 K8 DR6 K35 LY2 K2 G7 K35 R3 K2 R/4
One full sett is 346 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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 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/s13/dr4k4dr65k8dr6k35ly2k2g7k35r3k2r4/