Barbour

A tartan of the Barbour family.

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

The Barbour tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Barbour		LY/8 R4 LY42 DT22 W4 O42 LYi/8	244	~2014

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

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244

Barbour

1.95

250

Elystan Glodrydd

2.71

310

Young Presidents Organisation Dress

2.84

334

Unidentified Silk

2.90

310

Tache, Sir Etienne Paschal

2.91

310

Etienne Paschal Tache Sir...

3.09

436

Afternoon Tea / Milk Tea

3.18

270

Canadian Shield

3.20

224

Christmas Hill Game Farm

3.25

148

Ontario, Northern

3.30

130

Jacobite Silk sash

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.