Weir

A tartan of the Weir family.

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

Unmarked Weir clan sample from the MacGregor-Hastie collection, likely dating 1930–1950.

The Weir tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Weir		G/36 K2 LB6 K2 G6 K16 DB36 K2 LO2 K10 LO2 K2 DB36 K16 G4 K2 LB/4	328	1880

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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328

Weir

1.00

372

Hope Vere

1.39

278

Joseph Linn

1.46

494

Sempill

1.62

378

Robertson Hunting

1.64

416

Rankin

1.69

477

Spirit of Morningside

1.70

374

Rankin, John

1.70

352

Sandilands-Watson

1.71

284

Herriot

1.74

440

MacKenzie

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.