Nisbett Rose Dress
Its design is pattern GWKRWRWRKW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Sett from the Vestiarium Scoticum's Mackintosh; resembles the Vestiarium's Dunbar; Nisbets trace to Berwickshire's barony of Nisbet circa 1160.
The Nisbett Rose Dress tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nisbett Rose Dress | W/16 K16 Ri40 W3 R6 W3 R40 K16 W16 G/4 | 300 | 1981 | |
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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.











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.