Emergency Medical Services Memorial 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 KWKWKWRWGWWWGWRWKWKWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 21 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10043
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 09/06/2009 — Emergency Medical Services Memorial Tartan (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan is for anyone who works in the pre-hospital setting, particularly EMT's and Paramedics. The colours used in the design are: black and red to signify 11 September 2001, for all police, fire and EMS personnel working and off that fateful day; white stands for purity and cleanliness; light blue stands for the star of life; yellow stands for the snake and staff in the center of the star of life; light green stands for the earth where life saving duties are put into practise. - Jun. 2009 — Emergency Med. Services Memorial (C) (tartans-authority, record)
The designer writes: "This tartan is for anyone who works in the pre-hospital setting, particularly EMT's and Paramedics. The colours used in the design are: Black and Red signify 11 September 2001, a very dark day for all police, fire and EMS personnel working and of that fateful day; White stands for purity and cleanliness; Light Blue stands for the Star of Life; Yellow stands for the snake and staff in the center of the Star of Life; Light Green stands for the earth where life saving duties are put into practise."
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
- 09/06/2009 (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: 10043
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10043
Thread count
K/14 LB4 K4 LB4 K4 LB4 R14 LB38 Y8 LB3 W3 LB3 G8 LB38 R14 LB4 K4 LB4 K4 LB4 K/14
One full sett is 366 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s21/k14lb4k4lb4k4lb4r14lb38y8lb3w3lb3g8lb38r14lb4k4lb4k4lb4k14/