University of Edinburgh

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

Corporate tartan for the University of Edinburgh, woven by Lochcarron.

The University of Edinburgh tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
University of Edinburgh		K/8 DR26 K22 DB110 W4 K5 W/4	346	2007

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

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346

University of Edinburgh

1.29

254

Tyneside Blue, North Tyneside Pipe Band

1.36

138

St Andrews, Earl of

1.40

346

Edinburgh, The University of

1.49

364

Earl Blue Marl

1.56

144

Jon's Theme

1.66

208

MacBeth

1.76

272

Affara

1.97

318

Hong Kong St Andrew's Society

2.16

250

Perkins

2.26

232

Hannah

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.