Beatty

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

The Beatty tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Beatty		K/12 T6 DB56 LO16 K20 LO4 K4 LB4 K8 G32 DR24 K4 DR12 LB/4	396	1997

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.

ΔTartan

Threads

Variant

Sett

—

396

Beatty

1.52

268

Ross Anderson

2.10

304

Scotland's International

2.18

412

Beaton

2.30

192

Campbell Hunting

2.33

300

Anderson

2.35

306

Boxell, Baron

2.36

160

City Of Dorval

2.36

286

Rust

2.53

412

Bethune

2.56

256

Mozambique

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.