Summers

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

Discovered as a fragment in a Summers family bible, possibly brought to the US during early 18th-century emigration.

The Summers tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
SummersDG/10 R5 DG42 DB16 G5 DB5 G5 DB5 G36 DB5 G5 DB5 G5 DB16 DG42 R5 DG10 Y5 DG42 DB16 G5 DB5 G5 DB5 G36 DB5 G5 DB5 G5 DB16 DG42 Y/5833
Summers 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.

ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
833
sett
528
sett
532
sett

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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