Hird
Its design is pattern BGKRKBKBKGRBWRKYKRWBRBRYBWBYR — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Designed for the 1996 wedding of Fiona Hird to Mr. Blumsden; complex non-reversing sett combining three family checks.
The Hird tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hird | DB/8 G8 K40 R10 K8 DR10 K8 DB10 K36 G8 R16 DB4 LB4 R32 K8 LO4 K8 R32 LB4 DB4 R12 DB12 R4 LO4 DB40 LB4 DB40 LO4 R/6 | 762 | 1996 | |
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| 2 Variants: (Personal) · (Personal) | ||||
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.