James

A tartan of the James family.

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

The James tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
James		DB/22 K2 R6 DB12 K2 DB12 R6 DB8 R14 DB22 LY2 DB22 R14 LY4 K/8	282	—

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

—

282

James

0.13

141

James of Wales

3.02

382

Dundonald

3.25

236

Aberdale

3.49

204

Otago Peninsula

3.56

456

Fleming /Frisken/Flanders

3.60

504

Ibrox

3.70

460

Fleming Commemorative

3.71

818

Cornwall

3.74

256

Skarpathiotakis, George

3.89

386

Bredillet

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.