American National

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

Designed by Erica Randall (House of Edgar) for Houston Kilts of Glasgow; President Bush thanked the firm for a kilt outfit.

The American National tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
American NationalK/6 R6 DG8 DB14 K6 DT78 DB30 W/62962006
American National sett

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.

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.

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