City of London
Bands: KBWK · Stripes: K N W K K N W K
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10734
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 17/05/2012 — City of London (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — City of London Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 10734. Earliest known date: 12 November 2012 A tartan for the City of London, approved by Roger Gifford, elected Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2012, using the white and red of the cross of St. George and silver grey from the City Arms. Woven Sample: A woven sample of this tartan has been received by the Scottish Register of Tartans for permanent preservation in the National Records of Scotland. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 10734
Thread count
K/10 N48 W48 R/10

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #666666 #666666 | B #2A418A | 0.17 |
| W | #FFFFFF #FFFFFF | W #F7F7F7 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- City of London (Corporate) — ΔT 0.53
- MacRae of Conchra #3 — ΔT 0.65
- MacRae of Conchra — ΔT 1.15
- Boswell Dress (Personal) — ΔT 1.30
- Brun, Pierre Emmanuel (Personal) — ΔT 1.34
- Louisburg — ΔT 1.37
- Louisburg Canadian District Tartan Tartan Number: 5500. Earliest known date: 1994 Louisburg is a tiny seaside town in Nova Scotia about 20 miles southeast of Sydney and site of the 1758 Battle of Louisburgh. It was designed by Edith MacIntyre of Louisbourg with the assistance of Jean Kyte and Jean composed the following poem about the colours. CIDD count slightly different - RB/20 W8 Y20 LN/34 (John Fitzpatrick's July 2008 review of Canadian tartans). Gray fog and sea and rocks. The yellow sun. white spindrift on the harbour restless beneath an azure sky. Curent owners (2008): The Louisbourg Heritage Society P.O. Box 396 Louisbourg, B0A 1M0 Nova Scotia, Canada See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.39
- Merrilees Dress (Dance) — ΔT 1.41
- MacLeod, of Argentina — ΔT 1.43
- Gleneckley — ΔT 1.45
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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