Saul

A tartan of the Saul family.

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

The Saul tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Saul		DB/40 K8 DB8 K16 T20 K24 T24 K16 T24 K24 T20 K16 DB8 K8 DB40 K/16	568	2001

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

—

568

Saul

2.81

130

Arbuthnott

3.01

312

Saul

3.10

338

William Murdoch

3.14

224

Cargill

3.22

348

Mundigl

3.36

380

Clark

3.39

589

Poulter, Jet

3.40

92

Gordon Miniature

3.46

164

Cheape

3.46

337

Lamberton

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.