Air Force

Its design is pattern BBWBWBKBBBW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.

The Air Force tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Air Force		W/8 DB16 DR6 DB50 K26 B8 LB58 DB6 LB16 DB4 DR/6	394	—

Nearest tartans

The nearest NAMED TARTANS — each represented by its master sett — by ΔTartan distance from this tartan's master, which leads the table so the swatches line up against it.

ΔTartan

Threads

Variant

Sett

—

394

Air Force

1.00

394

Royal Air Force Regimental

1.37

222

GYL

1.58

186

Queen Margaret University

1.64

268

Diana Princess of Wales Memorial, The

1.94

352

U.S. Forces Thurso

2.06

294

Minnesota Dress

2.28

232

Madras College

2.39

270

US Forces Regimental

2.41

272

MacKellar Royal Blue Dress

2.44

172

Manchester City Football Club "Blue Moon"

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 10814 named tartans (their master setts) 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 master cloth. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.