Common

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

Wilson's of Bannockburn variant of Black Watch, predating widespread clan naming; military version included a red stripe.

The Common tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Common		R/6 K4 DB50 K56 G50 K4 R2 DB/4	342	~1790

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• Common Kilt

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

—

342

Common

1.50

240

Mowat

1.53

340

Coarse

1.81

204

Meoni

2.04

244

MacCormick

2.09

256

Thomas, baron of Craigie, Robert

2.10

248

MacTaggert

2.14

274

Pitceathley Chamberlain

2.16

592

Urbino

2.26

332

Jedforest

2.27

380

Rennie

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.