Dark Island

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

Solid Sett tartan: ecru Jacquard-woven fabric, piece-dyed black, with the sett revealed through varied light-reflecting stitches.

The Dark Island tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
Dark IslandK/8 DT4 K86 DT40 K8 DT4 K4 DT8 K4 DT4 K8 DT40 K86 DT4 K8 DT/46282003
Dark Island sett

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

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
628
sett
320
sett

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.

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