New York Fire Department Pipe Band
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 KWGKBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3121
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1963 — New York Fire Department Pipe Band (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Grainger & Campbell of Argyll Street, Glasgow, for the New York Fire Department Pipe Band. DC Stewart notes in the Scottish Tartan Society Nomindex that this design is based on Hunting Rose (STR#3548) with the red line of the Rose replaced by azure. Also close to Nisbet Dress Rose tartan (STR#3141). - Feb 1964 — New York Fire Dept. (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Grainger & Campbell of Argyll Street, Glasgow and used on ceremonial occasions. Broad blue lightened to show the sett. D C Stewart in Nomindex says based on Hunting Rose (#1226) with the red line of the Rose replaced by azure. Sample in STA Johnston Collection in which the blue is so dark as to be almost indistinguishable from the black. See also #946 - Nisbet Dress Rose. A sample exists in the Johnston Collection labelled New York Police Band but the STA has always been under the impression that that band were very much Irish oriented and wore plain green kilts.
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
- 1963 (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: 3121
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 60
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 60
Thread count
K/16 W4 G52 K44 DB44 LB/12
One full sett is 316 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s6/k4w1g13k11db11lb3~x4/