Buchan
A tartan of the Buchan family.
Its design is pattern BKRGRKRGRKBRGRKRKBRKRGR — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Asymmetrical sett, also MacIntyre and Glenorchy; adopted by Buchan family c.1965 reflecting ancient Cumming kinship ties.
The Buchan tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchan | R/12 G12 R4 K48 R4 DB4 K4 R4 K48 R4 G12 R12 DB4 K12 R4 G54 R4 K4 R4 G54 R4 K12 DB/4 | 640 | 1790 | |
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Also known as
This tartan is also recorded under:
- Buchan Cumming MacIntyre
- Buchan, Cumming MacIntyre
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.