Pasteur Fancy
Its design is pattern BYBG — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Pattern derived from the shawl in a pastel portrait of Louis Pasteur's mother, drawn when he was 13.
The Pasteur Fancy tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pasteur Fancy | DO/40 LR4 DO120 Y/12 | 300 | 1836 | |
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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.
ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
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300
116
136
184
221
372
150
154
120
132
300
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.