Bouncing Blackie

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

The Bouncing Blackie 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
Bouncing BlackieDB/13 DT13 DG21 DB34 DT55 DO/3262
Bouncing Blackie sett
(Personal)0.41DP/5 DB8 DT13 DG21 DB34 DT55 DO/3270~2008
(Personal) 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.

ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
262
sett
180
sett
294
sett

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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