Greater St Louis Area Firefighters Highland Guard
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 BRKBGBRBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10336
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2011 This tartan will be worn by members of the Greater St Louis Firefighters Highland Guard in memory of Firefighter-Paramedic Ryan Hummert of the Maplewood Missouri Fire Department. Firefighter-Paramedic Ryan Hummert was killed in the line of duty on the 21st July 2008 when a lone gunman ambushed emergency responders by setting a vehicle on fire and opening fire on firefighters and police officers when they arrived at the scene. Many of the band members were also involved in this call and the subsequent funeral and memorial services honouring Ryan. The Guard is honoured to design and wear this tartan in Ryan's memory. The tartan uses traditional fire department colours; red, black and gold. Charcoal grey is symbolic of smoke.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 08/12/2010 — Greater St Louis Area Firefighters Highland Guard (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan will be worn by members of the Greater St Louis Firefighters Highland Guard in memory of Firefighter-Paramedic Ryan Hummert of the Maplewood Missouri Fire Department. Firefighter-Paramedic Ryan Hummert was killed in the line of duty on the 21st July 2008 when a lone gunman ambushed emergency responders by setting a vehicle on fire and opening fire on firefighters and police officers when they arrived at the scene. Many of the band members were also involved in this call and the subsequent funeral and memorial services honouring Ryan. The Guard is honoured to design and wear this tartan in Ryan's memory. The tartan uses traditional fire department colours: red, black, and gold are used in many fire department colour schemes and are considered traditional fire service colours; charcoal grey was added to provide contrast and is symbolic of smoke. - 2011 — Greater St Louis Firefighters Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 08/12/2010 (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: 10336
Thread count
N/6 R6 K76 N50 Y6 N12 R14 N6 Y/4
One full sett is 350 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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.
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