Southdown

A tartan of the Southdown family.

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

The Southdown tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Southdown		DR/12 O88 DO24 N16 DO24 N24 DO8 DR4 O8 DO/12	416	1985

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• Southdown Grey

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

—

416

Southdown

1.79

580

Marshall

2.74

228

Drumbeg

2.92

252

Shieldhall

3.19

272

Leitrim

3.25

272

Dalbraith-Eastern Western Motor Group

3.45

248

Willsher Wedding

3.47

180

Browne

3.52

332

Ballintrae

3.53

328

Titanium

3.55

264

Leando 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.