Bell
A tartan of the Bell family.
Its design is pattern BKBWKWKGWRWGKWBKBK — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Designed in 1984 for Colonel William H. Bell, president of the Bell Family Association; commemorates a Border riding clan.
The Bell tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell | DB/14 K4 DB14 W2 K4 W2 K16 G4 W6 R20 W6 G4 K16 W2 DB22 K4 N6 K/4 | 282 | 2015 | |
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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.