Greater Victoria Police PB
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 BBBBWBW.
Part of the Greater Victoria Police PB tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1522
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2000 — Greater Victoria Police PB (register-of-tartans, record)
Instead of adopting an existing tartan, the executive decided to create its own history by designing a tartan of its own. The tartan's blue and red is representative of the police organizations in the Greater Victoria area. The white stripes are significant in that they denote Queen Victoria's colonial police force. The colonial police predated any other police organization on Vancouver Island.' Through Burnett's & Struth of Ontario. Lochcarron swatch. - 2000 circa — Greater Victoria Police PB (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
"Instead of adopting an existing tartan the executive decided to create its own history by designing a tartan of its own. The tartan?s blue and red is representative of the police organizations in the Greater Victoria area. The white stripes are significant in that they denote Queen Victoria?s colonial police force. The colonial police predated any other police organization on Vancouver Island." Through Burnett's & Struth of Ontario. Lochcarron swatch.
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
- 2000 (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: 1522
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6429
Thread count
DR/14 DT2 DR52 DT62 W2 DT2 W/4
One full sett is 258 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as DR/14 DT2 DR52 DT62 W2 DT2 W4 DT2 W2 DT62 DR52 DT/2 — 500 threads; it folds to the canonical 258-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s7/dr7dt1dr26dt31w1dt1w2~x2/