Dorcas
A tartan of the Dorcas family.
Its design is pattern GWGWGKBKBKBR — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Dorcas tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorcas | Y/8 W4 Y4 W6 Y40 K12 DO8 K4 DO4 K4 DO32 R/6 | 250 | 1980 | |
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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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250

250

204

284

200

202

284

230

268

228

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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.