Law Enforcement kilts

**The Wizard of BC** · 31st January 07, 03:25 PM

A note to think about when designing your Tartan.

About the average Tartan Sett is somewhere around 6-8 inches.

This means that in 13 oz fabric, which has approx. 48 yarns per inch, your design needs to contain 312 yarns in one full repeat to yield a repeat of 6.5 inches.

16 oz. fabric has approx. 36 yarns per inch so a full repeat of 234 yarns will yield
a repeat of 6.5 inches.

Please remember that the yarns per inch figures I give here are examples only and will vary between mills. I took my figures from samples of Locharran Tartan that I have here in the shop.

**macwilkin** · 31st January 07, 04:01 PM

The green could represent Federal Law Enforcement & Protection Rangers of the US National Park Service, the US National Forest Service, BLM, Fish & Wildlife, etc.

T.

**AnimalK** · 31st January 07, 05:07 PM

Colors: (after good input)

Blue: City/Local (Uniform Divisions, Patrol, etc), US Customs, Coast Guard, USSS Uniform Division

Green: Sheriff's Deputies, Green Uniform Feds (USFWS, USBP, NPS, etc)

Gray: State Troopers, Plainclothes officers ("Grey Flannel Suit" Feds-Criminal Investigators, FBI, Deputy US Marshals, USSS and other Special Agents, etc.,)
Police Plainclothes Detective Divisions,
Undercovers (Covert and Semi-)-"The Gray Men"- DEA, Air Marshals, Vice/Narcotics/Arson/EOD

Black and Dark Red: To remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice performing their duty. Mourning Bands and Blood.

I will keep working on this as my time permits.

**macwilkin** · 31st January 07, 05:15 PM

Information: The Coast Guard has its own tartan as well:

http://www.uscgpipeband.org/tartanhistory.php

Cheers,

Todd

**Rusty** · 2nd February 07, 02:55 PM

Well guys, I received a call back from Sgt Eric Rose of the Estes park Police Dept. He told me his kilt of choice is the Black Watch Tartan and that other members of the Police dept wear a tartan specially commissioned for the town of Estes Park. He Invited me to look him up next time I was in town for the Highland festival. Eric also said he would check out the Xmarks Website.