Historic Scotland
Its design is pattern BWBWBBKBK — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Historic Scotland tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historic Scotland | DB/8 W2 DB2 W6 DB48 N18 K2 N18 K/6 | 206 | — | |
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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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206
206
260
174
174
298
330
288
230
128
248
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.