Franconian

A tartan of the Franconian family.

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

Designed in 1997 by Franconia's Highland Circle whisky drinkers, produced by Hugh MacPherson of Edinburgh.

The Franconian tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
FranconianDB/44 G14 R10 G8 W10 G8 R10 G10 DB44 T10 DB8 G8 DB8 G44 DB8 G8 DB8 G8 DB44 Y10 DB10 R10 DB44 G8 DB8 G8 DB8 G44 DB8 G8 DB8 T/109381997
Franconian 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
938
sett
562
sett
684
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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