Canterbury
Its design is pattern GKRKRKGKRKR — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Designed in 1999 by Blair Urquhart for the Canterbury district of New Zealand.
The Canterbury tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canterbury | R/4 K40 R10 K8 DG8 K8 R10 K4 R28 K4 Y/4 | 248 | 1999 | |
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Also known as
This tartan is also recorded under:
- Canterbury New Zealand
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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248
298
222
252
268
270
432
164
334
282
424
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.