North Vancouver Island
Bands: RWBWBWBY · Stripes: R W DB W DB W DB LY R W DB W DB W DB LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3156
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/11/1985 — North Vancouver Island (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1985 — North Vancouver Island (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3156
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1682
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1682
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
R/8 W24 DB8 W36 DB36 W8 DB24 Y/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FFFFFF #FFFFFF | W #F7F7F7 | 0.02 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- North Vancouver, Island — ΔT 0.56
- Henderson Dress (Dance) — ΔT 1.06
- Boswell Dress (Personal) — ΔT 1.33
- Commonwealth Games 1986 — ΔT 1.57
- MacPherson Dress Blue (Dance) — ΔT 1.57
- Investors Group — ΔT 1.60
- MacRae of Conchra #3 — ΔT 1.61
- MacPherson, Blue & White — ΔT 1.61
- Ship Hector, The (Commemorative) — ΔT 1.61
- Poulter Sonic — ΔT 1.68
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.
ID: /setts/s8/ly2db6w2db9w9db2w6r2~x4/