Coeur D'Alene Firefighters Richard Gaines 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 GKRKRWKWKRKWK.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10202

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 16/01/2010 — Coeur D'Alene Firefighters Richard Gaines Memorial (register-of-tartans, record)
    This tartan has been designed for the Coeur D'Alene Firefighters Pipes and Drums Band. Colours: the black background is for all those in the fire service who have been lost in the line of duty; the red is for the courage of all firefighters; the black stripes dividing the 2 red stripes of 10 lines are for those firefighters lost in the fire of 1910 in Wallace, Idaho; and for Coeur D'Alene Firefighter Local 710 Firefighter Richard Gaines who lost his life in the line of duty in 1951; the white stripes are for Chief Officers who lead and support us; the gold stripe is for fire service tradition as seen in the gold leaf adorning fire engines.
  • 16th Jan. 2010 — Coeur D'Alene Firefighters (Corporat (tartans-authority, record)
    This tartan has been designed for the Coeur D'Alene Firefighters Pipes and Drums Band. Colours: the black background is for all those in the fire service who have been lost in the line of duty; the red is for the courage of all firefighters; the black stripes dividing the 2 red stripes of 10 lines are for those firefighters lost in the fire of 1910 in Wallace, Idaho; and for Coeur D'Alene Firefighter Local 710 Firefighter Richard Gaines who lost his life in the line of duty in 1951; the white stripes are for Chief Officers who lead and support us; the gold stripe is for fire service tradition as seen in the gold leaf adorning fire engines.
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
16/01/2010 (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

K/122 W2 K2 R4 K2 W2 K32 W2 R8 K4 R12 K2 Y/8

One full sett is 274 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
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)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

K/122 W2 K2 R4 K2 W2 K32 W2 R8 K4 R12 K2 Y/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

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