Black Watch

A tartan of Clan Black.

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

The Black Watch 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
Black WatchR/8 K8 DT48 K48 G48 K4 R/63261788
Black Watch sett
Black Watch1.33R/8 K8 DB48 K48 G48 K4 R/6326
Black Watch 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.

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