Ailsa
A tartan of the Ailsa family.
Its design is pattern RBRWBW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Ailsa tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ailsa | R/16 DR6 R56 W64 DR6 W/8 | 288 | 2008 | |
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| 2 Variants: Red V2 (Dance) · Red | ||||
Also known as
This tartan is also recorded under:
- Ailsa Red
- Ailsa, Red V2
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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288

208

276

250

288

304

264

232

250

264

256

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.