Bear
A tartan of the Bear family.
Its design is pattern GKYKGRGRKYWWGYGRGR — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Designed to promote identity within the International Bear Community, its colours derived from the Bear Brotherhood flag.
The Bear tartan groups 3 setts — the same named design recorded as different cloths (its kilt, Carpet, Child's…, or a transcription apart). The master sett (★) is the exemplar.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
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| Bear ★ | DY/48 K2 LR4 K2 DY48 O4 DY4 O24 K8 LR8 W8 Wi8 Y8 LO8 DY8 O24 DY4 O/4 | 396 | 2005 | |
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| Corporate Tartan | 0.90 | K/2 LR4 K2 DY48 O4 DY4 O24 DY8 LO8 Y8 W8 Wi8 LR8 K8 O24 DY4 O4 DY/48 | 398 | 2005 |
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| (Corporate) | 1.64 | K/2 LR4 K2 DY48 O4 DY4 O24 DY8 LO8 Y8 Wi8 W8 LR8 K8 O24 DY4 O4 DY/48 | 398 | 2005 |
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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.