Ross 4

A tartan of the Ross family.

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

The Ross 4 tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Ross 4		R/10 G50 R10 G4 R4 G4 R16 DB12 R4 DB12 R124 G4 R10 G/10	528	—

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• Ross #7

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

—

528

Ross 4

1.65

650

MacGillivray

2.17

250

Ross 5

2.35

594

Rothesay

2.38

348

Grant of Glenmoriston

2.51

480

MacAlister of Glenbarr

2.65

272

Ross, Old

2.68

524

Grant VS

2.84

674

Unidentified Cant

2.85

164

MacColl

3.05

600

Grant of Rothiemurchus

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.