Black Hills

A tartan of Clan Black.

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

Commissioned by the Campbells for the Black Hills Highland Games in Sturgis, South Dakota; unofficial state tartan.

The Black Hills tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
Black HillsDB/6 W4 G28 R28 K4 DB14 K18 DY4 K/42102003
Black Hills sett

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.

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