Hoben

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

The Hoben tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Hoben		K/6 W2 R40 DB8 R8 G20 R8 DB8 R40 K2 W/6	284	1960

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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284

Hoben

1.97

694

Unidentified Plaid 10

2.05

290

Loch Lochy

2.09

382

Justerini & Brooks

2.17

304

Oliver

2.18

304

Oliver Dress

2.19

442

Unidentified Travelling costume

2.48

214

Hoa Sen

2.51

216

Stewart of Rothesay

2.56

230

British Lions

2.61

260

New York Caledonian Club Dress

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.