Buchanan Variant

A tartan of Clan Buchanan.

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

The Buchanan Variant tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Buchanan Variant		LB/16 K6 LY44 K6 LY44 K6 LB16 K6 O44 LB16 O44 K6 LB16 K6 R28 W6 R28 K/12	672	1999

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

—

672

Buchanan Variant

2.57

412

Buchanan Old

2.64

174

Unidentified No 3

2.73

410

Coulter

2.77

248

Hovington

2.80

320

BeeJay

2.87

236

Buchanan

3.23

496

Buchanan 2

3.27

282

Carnegie Dress

3.42

312

Valley of the

3.46

124

Hovington

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.