Prince George's Police 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 BBGBBBGY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3392
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1984 — Prince George's Police Pipe Band (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in 1988 by J.C. 'Scotty' Thompson for the police department in Prince George, Maryland. The late Scotty was one of north America's leading experts on tartan and was a prolific author, his most popular book being 'So you're going to wear the kilt?' He also co-authored 'Scotland's Forged Tartans' with the father of modern tartan research, the late D.C. Stewart. The pipe band was formed in 1984. Although membership is open to anyone interested in bagpiping or drumming the band was created to enhance the public image of the Police Department. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. - 1988 — Prince George's Police (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed in 1988 by J.C. 'Scotty' Thompson for the police department in Prince George, Maryland. The late Scotty was one of north America's leading experts on tartan and was a prolific author, his most popular book being 'So you're going to wear the kilt?" He also co-authored 'Scotland's Forged Tartans' with the father of modern tartan research, the late D C Stewart. Sample in STA Johnston Collection.
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
- 1984 (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: 3392
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5474
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2874
Thread count
DB/84 DR4 Y32 DR4 DB12 DR4 Y16 LO/6
One full sett is 234 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| 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/s8/db42dr2y16dr2db6dr2y8lo3~x2/