Indigo

A tartan of the Indigo family.

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

Corporate tartan for UK denim weaver Indigo Blue Works, designed to promote products in Japan; launched in Pitlochry.

The Indigo tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Indigo		LB/10 K2 LB2 K2 LB10 DB36 K2 DBi8 K2 DB18 K2 DBi8 K2 DB36 LB10 K2 LB2 K2 LB10 DB/8	330	1997

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• Indigo Blue
• Indigo Blue Works

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

—

330

Indigo

2.76

404

Roberts of Wales

2.83

472

Rankin

2.84

372

Hope Vere / Weir

2.85

294

Balmoral, Gillies

2.89

378

Blue Matheson Hunting

3.02

250

Midnight Sunrise

3.03

174

Indigo

3.10

446

Chicago, University of..

3.11

260

Swedish

3.11

452

St. Leonards

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.