Black Scottish National

A tartan of Clan Black.

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

Reworked dark variant of the Scottish National tartan, woven by Marton Mills.

The Black Scottish National tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Black Scottish National		O/16 W2 O2 DP2 O2 K14 G14 K2 G6 K2 G14 K14 O14 K2 DP/6	202	—

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

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202

Black Scottish National

1.75

264

Anderson

1.85

264

Anderson 10

2.33

304

Pride of Loch Leven

2.43

614

Poulter

2.48

304

92nd Regiment Drummers'

2.51

446

Van Ingelgem Hunting

2.54

220

Huntly Old

2.55

506

Graham of Airth

2.56

466

Stuart-Houghton

2.57

282

Blackburn Appalachian Hunting

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.