Rankin

A tartan of the Rankin family.

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

The Rankin tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Rankin		DB/36 K4 DB8 K40 G20 DR4 G20 K2 LB6 K2 G20 DR4 G20 K40 DR2 DB28 DR6 DB4 DR4 DB8 LB/2	522	2002

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• Rankin #1

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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522

Rankin

1.46

1116

Cameron

1.60

494

Sempill

1.86

632

Ochiltree

1.88

412

Farquharson

1.89

960

Sempill

1.98

370

Dyce

2.01

822

Logan

2.05

358

Robertson of Kindeace

2.12

1008

Farquharson or MacEwan

2.16

378

Robertson Hunting

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.