Heather

A tartan of the Heather family.

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

The Heather tartan groups 2 setts — the same named design recorded as different cloths (its kilt, Carpet, Child's…, or a transcription apart). The master sett (★) is the exemplar.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
HeatherDB/8 LB6 N60 LB6 DP32 LB6 DP20 DPi96 G/84681993
Heather sett
(NSPCC) (Corporate)0.39DB/4 LB6 N60 LB6 DP32 LB6 DP20 DPi96 DG/8464~1993
(NSPCC) (Corporate) 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
468
sett
248
sett
268
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.

Loch LomondHeather Meadgroundcomplexity

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