National Defense
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 GRWBWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10097
Provenance
Earliest known date: 13th March 2009 Designed by Mark Wright of The Frugal Corner in the USA to honour all those who had been awarded the US Military National Defense Medal and is based on the ribbon colours of that medal. The application reads, "to honour all those who have served in defence of their country."
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/03/2009 — National Defense (register-of-tartans, record)
The tartan is to honour all those who have served in defence of their country. - 13th March 2009 — National Defense (Unauthorised) (tartans-authority, record)
Initially this unofficial tartan was designed by Mark Wright of The Frugal Corner in the USA to honour all those who had been awarded the US Military National Defense Medal and is based on the ribbon colours of that medal. After representations made by the STA, the application was changed to read: "to honour all those who have served in defence of their country." but the design has remained as before. - undated — National Defense Commemorative Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 01/03/2009 (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: 10097
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10097
Thread count
R/80 W4 DB4 W4 R2 Y/40
One full sett is 148 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/s6/r40w2db2w2r1y20~x2/