Tait

A tartan of the Tait family.

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

The Tait tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Tait		W/8 K2 R4 K2 G18 K4 T48 K4 R12 K4 G24 Y/4	256	1982

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• Tait #2

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

—

256

Tait

1.78

392

California State

1.79

312

Ayrton

2.50

320

Wcwm 972-1

2.51

592

Canadian Estate

2.53

410

State Seal of Pennsylvania

2.57

262

Order of Saint Lazarus

2.59

324

Fermanagh County, Crest Range

2.61

338

Brehat

2.72

320

Stirling University

2.73

306

Zambia

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.