Chieftain, The

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

The Chieftain, The tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Chieftain, The		DB/34 DR12 Y4 DR12 K4 W4 K4 W20 K2 W4 K2 Y/6	176	1973

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

—

176

Chieftain, The

1.81

274

Carnegie

1.85

184

Thomson

2.01

324

Baird Dress

2.12

312

McCandlish Dress

2.15

296

Willox

2.18

316

Sutherland Dress, Old

2.25

242

Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association

2.28

448

Boston Pipe Band, Greater

2.30

166

de Franck, Matt

2.31

284

Rangers Dress

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.