Oilmens
A tartan of the [Oilmens](/families/oilmens/) family.
Its design is pattern [GKRKRKRK](/stripes/gkrkrkrk/) — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Genuinely asymmetrical corporate design by Don Barkwell, dating from before 1992.
The Oilmens tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oilmens | Y/16 K4 R120 K60 R96 K8 R16 K/4 | 628 | ~1992 | |
| ||||
Also known as
This tartan is also recorded under:
- Barkwell, The
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
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628
620
312
216
216
280
280
90
260
236
288
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 10270 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.