Talk:United States Coast Guard Pipe Band

Thread count of tartan
According to the article, "The tartan's full thread count is W10 R10 CGB12 R2 CGB12".

According to the source cited for that information, The Scottish Register of Tartans, the thread count is W20 R20 B24 R4 B24 R4 B24 R20. (To get this information from them, you need to have or create an account, and they limit you on how many thread counts you can request, for copyright reasons. I have an account.)

These thread counts are not as different as they look:
 * The SRT thread count uses B (which it defines as "2C2C80") rather than CGB. This is not significant.
 * The SRT thread count does not assume symmetry, so the non-terminal items appear twice, in reverse order. This is just a matter of notation.
 * But the SRT thread count gives double all the numbers, resulting in a broader pattern. This does not much matter in itself, but does call into question the article's statement about the "white ten-thread count supposed to represent the first ten cutters", if in fact there are 20 white threads. Maproom (talk) 10:44, 28 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Also, if you check the other source cited, http://www.uscg.mil/uniform/docs/cim_m1020_6g.pdf page 4-31, and zoom in on the tartan sample shown there, you can see that the white thread count is indeed 20. Maproom (talk) 10:52, 28 April 2016 (UTC)