Ballater
A tartan of the Ballater family.
Its design is pattern BBBBWKBKWB — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Modern commercial design given a district name for marketing, not a true historical Ballater district tartan.
The Ballater tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballater | DR/12 LB24 K4 DR4 K4 LB24 DR8 DB24 B4 DB/12 | 216 | 1963 | |
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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.