Blackwater
A tartan of the Blackwater family.
Its design is pattern BGBGBGBKGKBKGBGKBKGK — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Blackwater tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwater | K/8 DG4 K14 T4 K8 DG34 T4 DG34 K8 T4 K14 DG4 K8 T8 DG4 T32 DG4 T32 DG4 T/8 | 464 | 1997 | |
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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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464

149

1620

144

396

416

240

576

544

176

360

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.