Cairngorm
A tartan of the Cairngorm family.
Its design is pattern BWGRBW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Sample recorded by the Scottish Tartans Society between 1970 and 1990.
The Cairngorm tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cairngorm | N/4 W4 Y14 O28 N4 W/4 | 108 | 1963 | |
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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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108
108
352
436
112
250
340
112
182
228
240
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.