Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporate Tartan
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 BKWGBKRYRKBGWKBK.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2447
Provenance
Earliest known date: 05/05/1998 Designed by Violet Holmes, B.C. Canada and adopted as the official RCMP tartan. Weft differs in having red in place of orange so making 6 weft colours. Sample presented to the RCMP by Priness Anne during a visit to New Brunswick on 25th June 1998. Lochcarron records say December 1997. Different weft - orange missing. Original count had dark blue in place of the black shown here in the Lochcarron swatch.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 05/05/1998 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
K/152 DB2 K4 LB2 G28 DR10 K26 O2 LO2 O2 K26 DR10 G28 LB2 K4 DB/2
One full sett is 450 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #0064AC #0064AC | oklch(49.5% 0.138 249.5) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 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/k76db1k2lb1g14dr5k13o1lo1x2db2006246-lb3200000/