Oban

A tartan of the Oban family.

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

The Oban tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Oban		K/8 DR4 DB36 DR8 K28 DB8 DR24 G24 DR8 K48 LB4 N4 K/4	404	1963

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

—

404

Oban

1.33

317

Dublin County, Crest Range

2.15

472

Shandon

2.33

472

Shandon

2.34

232

Barry

2.40

398

Yeomans

2.42

244

Sturm

2.45

346

Bell's Whisky

2.50

288

van der Watt

2.58

494

Unidentified Furnishing

2.59

224

MacKusick Family Tartan of North America

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.