Calgary Firefighters

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 BKBRB.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10484

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 11/04/2010 — Calgary Firefighters (register-of-tartans, record)
    This tartan was designed by Paul Wilkinson and Erin Shaw to be worn by the Alberta Firefighters Pipe Band and the Calgary Fire Department Pipes and Drums. The tartan is named after the Calgary Firefighters Association.
  • 11th April 2010 — Calgary Firefighters (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
    This tartan was designed by Paul Wilkinson and Erin Shaw to be worn by the Alberta Firefighters Pipe Band and the Calgary Fire Department Pipes and Drums. The tartan is named after the Calgary Firefighters Association. A woven sample of this tartan has been received by the Scottish Register of Tartans for perm
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
11/04/2010 (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

N/8 K96 N32 R24 DB/6

One full sett is 318 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

N/8 K96 N32 R24 DB/6 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

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.

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