Porcupine
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern BRBYBGGGBWW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3355
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1956 — Porcupine (register-of-tartans, record)
Not known if this is named for the city or the area or whether it is simply a fashion tartan. It bears no relation to 'City of Porcupine'. Fashion tartans don't usually record the designer's name whereas district/town tartans tend to. - pre 1969 — Porcupine (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Not known if this is named for the city or the area or whether it is simply a fashion tartan. It bears no relation to 'City of Porcupine'. Fashion tartans don't usually record the designer's name whereas district/town tartans tend to. Dec. 2014. Kathleen Sinclairfrom Winnipeg not the designer but the writer of a very short article on Canadian tartans in a 1969 Scottish Tartans Society Proceedings.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1956 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3355
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1303
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1303
Thread count
N/4 R4 N12 LY4 N4 DY32 Y28 G4 N4 LB4 W/4
One full sett is 200 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s11/n1r1n3ly1n1dy8y7g1n1lb1w1~x4/