Buchanan Hunting

A tartan of the Buchanan family.

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

The Buchanan Hunting tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Buchanan Hunting		G/48 K4 LB12 K4 DR24 W2 DR24 K4 LB12 K4 DY24 K4 DY24 K4 LB12 K4 G24 LB/12	432	—

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

—

432

Buchanan Hunting

0.69

496

Buchanan 2

1.90

552

Cumming

2.00

432

Buchanan, hunting

2.51

576

Princess Beatrice Dress

2.51

454

Loseby, Luke

2.56

312

Unidentified

2.57

318

Scottish Wildcat

2.60

728

Le Cercle des Femmes

2.61

396

Melnyk-Jones

2.67

364

Caledonian Society of P.E.I.

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.