Porcupine City of
Bands: GYBWBBR · Stripes: G LO DB LB DB N R G LO DB LB DB N R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3356
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1980 — Porcupine City of (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1980 — Porcupine City of (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3356
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5493
Thread count
G/20 DY8 DB4 Na32 DB4 N12 R/40

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| Na | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
| R | #B03000 #B03000 | R #CC0000 | 0.06 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Nicolson of Taransay (Personal) — ΔT 0.73
- Brittany Hunting French Fancy Tartan Tartan Number: 5977. Earliest known date: 2003 For Richard and Anne-Marie Duclos of Le Coudray-Montceaux, France. Based on the Breton National at 3902. The term Randonnée (Walking) is used in the sense of the Scottish category, Hunting. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.76
- Unnamed No 14 — ΔT 0.83
- Unidentified No 14 — ΔT 0.97
- Derry Family (Personal) — ΔT 1.02
- Ball — ΔT 1.04
- Wilson's, No 121 — ΔT 1.07
- Elystan Glodrydd (Name) — ΔT 1.07
- Ontario Northern Canadian District Tartan Tartan Number: 956. Earliest known date: 1967 The six colours represent the nickel bearing rocks (grey), the snow (white), the sky and the lakes (blue), gold, the forests and fields (green), and the Indian Nation (red brown). See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.08
- Ontario, Northern — ΔT 1.08
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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