Arctic

A tartan of the Arctic family.

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

The Arctic tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Arctic		T/4 W24 LB4 W4 LB8 R8 DG8 K8 W4 T8 DB64 W/4	288	2001

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

—

288

Arctic

2.05

268

MacLean

2.72

548

Arctic

2.79

336

Twenty First Century

2.82

294

Minnesota Dress

2.83

274

Hamburg

2.86

268

Diana Princess of Wales Memorial, The

2.87

284

Buffalo

2.87

290

St. Andrews Management School

2.95

222

GYL

2.96

148

Twempy

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.