Holmes

A tartan of the Holmes family.

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

The Holmes tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Holmes		Y/8 G78 DB18 K6 DB10 K6 DB18 G64 R4 G6 R4 G10 Y4 G6 R/6	482	1830

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• Kennedy

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

—

482

Holmes

0.04

474

Kennedy

1.76

466

Bartlett

1.78

550

King Edward

2.21

380

Bartlett from Winnetka, Illinois

2.42

268

Murphy and his Gang

2.56

322

Ross Hunting

2.71

276

Letham Hunting

2.74

348

Seattle

2.81

284

Kennedy

2.99

316

Hynde

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.