Arran
A tartan of the Arran family.
Its design is pattern BWBWKWKW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Modern district sett introduced by MacNaughtons of Pitlochry in 1982, its decreasing-stripe effect drawn from old Arran plaids.
The Arran tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arran | LB/48 K4 LB4 K4 LB4 DB32 W36 N/8 | 224 | 1989 | |
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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.











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.