Aberdeen

A tartan of the Aberdeen family.

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

The Aberdeen tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Aberdeen		W/4 B8 K32 W4 DP12 LB8 W4 LB8 DP12 W4 DP6 R16 DG6 W4 DG6 R16 DP6 W4 K24 B8 K24 W4 DP6 R16 DG6 W4 DG6 R16 DP6 W4 LB20 W4 R12 DG6 W2 DG6 R12 W4 B8 K32 W4 R46 DG6 W/4	892	—

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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892

Aberdeen

1.12

884

Aberdeen

3.42

1096

Wilson's No.017

3.72

446

Hunter

3.90

1354

Ogilvy of Inverquharity

3.95

313

Anderson 1

3.96

508

Anderson

3.98

534

Ogilvy of Airlie

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.