Dropkick Murphys
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 KGGKGKGKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=977
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2007 — Dropkick Murphys (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Rocky Roeger of USAKilts.com for an Irish-American Punk Rock band in Boston, Massachusetts, USA named Dropkick Murphys. The band is named after a rehab clinic in Massachusetts which was known as 'Dropkick Murphy's'. The design was based on colours frequently used by the band and inspired by the Wallace Hunting tartan that Scruffy (their bagpiper) wears. - pre 2007 — Dropkick Murphys (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Registration Notes: Designed by Rocky Roeger of USAKilts.com for an Irish-American Punk Rock band in Boston, Massachusetts, USA named Dropkick Murphys. The band is named after a rehab clinic in Massachusetts which was known as 'Dropkick Murphy's'. The design was based on colours frequently used by the band and inspired by the Wallace Hunting tartan that Scruffy (their bagpiper) wears. No one may weave cloth or use the tartan pattern without the expressed written consent of Rocky Roeger and Josh Wallace.
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
- 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: 977
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7127
Thread count
K/6 DG55 G6 K85 G4 K4 DG12 K2 W/5
One full sett is 347 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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/s9/k6dg55g6k85g4k4dg12k2w5~dg1806142-g2408144/