Cape Breton
Its design is pattern YKGKWKY — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Designed in 1957 to match Lillian Crewe Walsh's poem praising Cape Breton, with colours symbolising steel, hills, and more.
The Cape Breton tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Breton | LY/12 K12 Y60 K16 LB36 K12 LY/6 | 290 | 1957 | |
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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.
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.