Gray

A tartan of the Gray family.

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

Gray family sept of Clans Stewart or Sutherland; northern Grays held lands at Skibo, Sordell and Ardinish.

The Gray tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
GrayN/66 G20 R6 G6 R6 G6 R16 N20 R6 N20 R16 G6 R6 G6 R6 G20 N66 R/65361986
Gray sett

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
536
sett
330
sett
300
sett
176
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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