Aberdeen Dress
A tartan of the Aberdeen family.
Its design is pattern KBWBKBWBKWKRBWBRKRWBR — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Aberdeen Dress tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen Dress | K/2 DP8 W26 DP2 K10 B8 W2 B8 K10 W2 K6 R10 N6 W2 N6 R10 K26 R2 W40 N6 R/2 | 384 | 1986 | |
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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
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Sett
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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.