Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial
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 BBKGBBKY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5506
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/12/2007 — Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Rocky Roeger and Officer Tim Welch. The grey (silver) and the gold are for the police officers' badges. The horizontal black columns that cross the badge lines represent the mourning bands the officers wear over their badges when an officer dies. The royal blue represents the fallen officers and living men and women who currently serve or are retired from law enforcement. There are 36 threads in each of the two black columns which total 72 - the number of police officers who died on 9/11. Those columns represent the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The thin blue line between them represents the line between order and chaos. Green is for the Irish community which has contributed so many serving officers over the decades. - Dec. 2007 — Law Enforcement Officers' Mem. (Cor (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Rocky Roeger and Officere Tim Welch.. The grey (silver) and the gold are for the police officers' badges. The royal blue represents the "thin blue line" between order and chaos There are 36 threads in the two black columns which total 74 - the number of police officers who died in 9/11 - and those columns represent the Twin Towers with the thin blue line between them. Green is for the Irish community which has contributed so many serving officers over the decades.
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
- 01/12/2007 (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: 5506
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7460
Thread count
DB/6 DBi4 K37 G6 DBi80 N4 K4 LY/4
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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/s8/db6dbi4k37g6dbi80n4k4ly4~db1106275-dbi1406275/