Blackwater
A tartan of the Blackwater family.
Its design is pattern BGKBKGKBGBG — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Blackwater tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwater | DG/4 T32 DG4 T8 K8 DG4 K14 T4 K8 DG34 T/4 | 240 | 1997 | |
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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.
ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
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240

200

396

416

210

144

260

548

416

260

218

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.