Black

A tartan of the Black family.

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

The Black tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Black		K/34 DB6 K8 R2 K34 R4 K6 R4 K34 R6 K34 R6 G6 R/6	340	~1991

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

—

340

Black

0.04

370

Hebrides

0.46

220

Hebridean

2.06

520

O'Boyle

2.07

276

Hebridean 6

2.66

260

Springbank

2.83

326

Maier

2.87

312

Gold-Smith

2.89

229

Harley Davidson

3.03

304

GOLF

3.09

356

Savannah Harley Davidson

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.