Hay
A tartan of the Hay family.
Its design is pattern RGGGRGRGRGRKRW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Clan Hay design from the Sobieski Stuart brothers' 1842 Vestiarium Scoticum.
The Hay tartan groups 4 setts — the same named design recorded as different cloths (its kilt, Carpet, Child's…, or a transcription apart). The master sett (★) is the exemplar.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
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| Hay ★ | R/12 G8 Y4 G34 R4 G4 R4 G16 R52 G12 R8 K4 R8 W/12 | 340 | 1842 | |
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| Hay | 0.55 | R/9 G6 Y4 G54 R4 G4 R4 G18 R72 G6 R4 K2 R4 W/9 | 382 | 1842 |
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| 1842 (Clan) | 0.56 | R/6 DG4 LY2 DG36 R2 DG2 R2 DG12 R48 DG4 R2 K2 R2 W/6 | 248 | 1842 |
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| Hay | 0.61 | R/6 G4 Y2 G36 R2 G2 R2 G12 R48 G4 R2 K1 R2 W/6 | 246 | — |
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| · ×1 — Hay | 0.61 | R/6 G4 Y2 G36 R2 G2 R2 G12 R48 G4 R2 K1 R2 W/6 | 246 | — |
| · ×2 — Hay | 0.61 | R/12 G8 Y4 G72 R4 G4 R4 G24 R96 G8 R4 K2 R4 W/12 | 492 | — |
| 2 Variants: Hay · Hay | ||||
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.
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.