Baxter
A tartan of the Baxter family.
Its design is pattern BGKBKYKYKBKBWBKBKYKYKBKG — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Recorded by Logan (c.1832) as "Buchanan"; named Baxter in Peter's 1856 Baronage of Angus & Mearns.
The Baxter tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter | G/64 K4 B8 K4 LO16 K4 LO16 K4 B8 K4 DR64 W8 DR64 K4 B8 K4 LO16 K4 LO16 K4 B8 K4 G64 B/8 | 744 | 1856 | |
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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.