Buchan
A tartan of the Buchan family.
Its design is pattern KBRKRGRBKRGRK — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Buchan tartan is one sett, recorded at 2 scales — the same proportion woven finer or broader. The top row is the unit proportion; each scale row is one weaving of it.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchan | K/2 DB2 R2 K24 R2 G6 R6 DB2 K6 R2 G27 R2 K/2 | 166 | — | |
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| · ×1 — Buchan | 0.00 | K/2 DB2 R2 K24 R2 G6 R6 DB2 K6 R2 G27 R2 K/2 | 166 | — |
| · ×2 — (d) | 0.00 | K/4 DB4 R4 K48 R4 G12 R12 DB4 K12 R4 G54 R4 K/4 | 332 | — |
| 2 Variants: Buchan · (d) | ||||
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.