Commonwealth

A tartan of the Commonwealth family.

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

The Commonwealth tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Commonwealth		DB/24 W8 R24 W10 K8 O24 DB40 R8 DB10 R/8	296	—

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

—

296

Commonwealth

1.20

296

Commonwealth Games 1986 Special Event

1.25

304

Commonwealth Games 1986

2.47

188

Stewart Old

2.63

268

Le Mirage

2.72

342

Longford Irish County

2.73

150

Westgaard Captain

2.83

288

Tullis Russell

2.90

210

Edinburgh, City of

2.95

480

U.S. Postal Service

2.97

216

Ballater

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.