Borders

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

The Borders tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
BordersW/4 K30 N14 LB14 K2 R2 K2 LR14 K2 W14 K14 N14 LB14 W2 K2 R/22862010
Borders 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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