Royal Highland

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

Black Watch-based design for the Highland Society of Scotland, with colours representing agricultural heritage; "barley white" added.

The Royal Highland tartan groups 2 setts — the same named design recorded as different cloths (its kilt, Carpet, Child's…, or a transcription apart). The master sett (★) is the exemplar.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
Royal HighlandLB/8 DG34 K20 DB6 K6 DB34 DR6 DB/62261992
Royal Highland sett
Corporate Tartan0.44LR/8 G33 K21 DB6 K6 DB33 R6 DB/62241992
Corporate Tartan sett

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.

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.

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