Swankie

A tartan of the Swankie family.

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

The Swankie tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Swankie		DG/6 B44 DO20 O10 DG42 R12 B/6	268	—

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

—

268

Swankie

2.06

226

Newmill

2.07

304

Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Khaki

2.20

272

Kilkenny

2.21

262

Kilkenny, County

2.29

292

Hutchesons' Grammar

2.32

169

Ballantyne STWR

2.48

224

Unidentified from Winnipeg

2.58

132

Dunbog Primary School

2.59

260

Akins

2.63

158

Patterson, John

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.