Glenlyon

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

The Glenlyon tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Glenlyon		G/12 K8 DB/8	36	1800

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• Glenlyon #2

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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36

Glenlyon

0.33

38

Wilson's No.052

0.40

60

Glen Lyon

0.69

32

Wilson's, No 45

0.73

72

Wilson's No.050

0.77

30

Mull

0.79

26

Glen Lyon or Mull

0.88

72

Wilson's, No 50

1.04

98

Wilson's, No 196

1.09

92

Unidentified pattern

1.20

80

Algarve

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.