Federal Bureau of Investigation
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 BBBWBWB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1155
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Federal Bureau of Investigation (register-of-tartans, record)
Same as Earl of St. Andrews with red line on blue ground. Commissioned for use for the FBI Pipe Band from Thomas Gordon & Sons of Glasgow but now regarded as being the FBI tartan. The now defunct Scottish Tartan Society register has a different tartan (#82, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) allocated to the FBI and comments: 'Discovered (in 1991) to be the same as a previously accredited tartan, ''S.C.O.T.S.'' designed by Kinloch Anderson in 1988. Twenty kilts have been produced for the F.B.I. pipe band.' Whilst the tartans are similar they're certainly not the same. - pre 2002 — FBI (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Same as Earl of St. Andrews with red line on blue ground. Commissioned for use for the FBI Pipe Band from Thomas Gordon & Sons of Glasgow but now regarded as being the FBI tartan. The now defunct Scottish Tartans Society register has a different tartan (#82) allocated to the FBI and comments: "Discovered (in 1991) to be the same as a previously accredited tartan, ''S.C.O.T.S.'' (#82) designed by Kinloch Anderson in 1988. Twenty kilts have been produced for the F.B.I. pipe band." Whilst the tartans are similar they're certainly not the same.
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
- 2002 (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: 1155
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 83
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 83
Thread count
DB/12 LB4 DB4 LB6 DB32 T52 DR/4
One full sett is 212 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/s7/db6lb2db2lb3db16t26dr2~x2/