Barbour

A tartan of the Barbour family.

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

Designed by Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh for the linings of Barbour's wax jackets.

The Barbour tartan groups 2 setts — the same named design recorded as different cloths (its kilt, Carpet, Child's…, or a transcription apart). The master sett (★) is the exemplar.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
BarbourR/6 K40 W4 DO22 O42 LY4 O/42341998
Barbour sett
Barbour0.14R/6 K40 W4 DO22 O42 Y4 O/8238
Barbour sett

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.

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.

BarbourScotch House 2000 DressMcMuldrochBarbourUnidentified No 5Norwich No.005Caledonian BreweryMorris of BalgonieCraigmoorBombeiros Voluntarios De Galiciagroundcomplexity

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