Colbert Check

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

The Colbert Check tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Colbert Check		K/62 W10 Y10 K4 W18 K4 LY3 W/4	164	~1980

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

—

164

Colbert Check

1.42

336

Gretna Football Club

1.55

308

Moonlight Glen

1.64

200

Newcastle

1.89

280

Bundy, Dress

2.03

212

Ashers of Nairn

2.10

202

Northern Kentucky University

2.13

300

West Point

2.25

306

Universal Scientific Indust

2.26

332

Gordon Dress

2.33

202

Richecourt, Baron of

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.