Hoban

A tartan of the Hoban family.

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

The Hoban tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Hoban		Y/12 LP36 K12 LP16 K36 G60 K36 DB44 W/8	500	~2004

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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500

Hoban

1.56

334

Manderson

1.57

268

Celtic Women International

1.85

272

Brotherston

2.13

152

Cherokee

2.24

286

Kilkenny County, Crest Range

2.28

156

Birch

2.28

368

Smith

2.29

287

Redgate

2.30

366

North of Scotland Tartan Army

2.30

354

Veere

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.