Walsh

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

The Walsh tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Walsh		Y/2 K2 G2 DG32 R2 DG32 K2 O4 K4 DG2 G24 W/2	216	2003

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

—

216

Walsh

2.62

594

U.S. Army

2.85

280

Canadian Caledonian Hunting

2.95

308

Irish American

2.98

442

State Seal of New Hampshire

3.33

430

State Seal of Maine

3.45

316

MacClure Hunting

3.51

152

Carroll O'Reed

3.54

414

Lambert Hunting

3.76

320

U.S. Army

3.78

284

Kennedy

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.