Cranstoun

A tartan of the Cranstoun family.

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

Clan tartan first recorded in the 1842 Vestiarium Scoticum, its sole source.

The Cranstoun tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Cranstoun		B/28 DB2 B2 DB2 B6 DB12 G24 R/4	128	—

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

—

128

Cranstoun

1.16

154

Unnamed, No 52

2.09

254

Seaford House

2.32

172

Mercer

2.57

230

Roscommon

2.69

300

Georgian Bay, Waters of

2.78

436

Afternoon Tea / Earl

2.86

248

Fraser Gathering, hunting

2.91

210

Crantock

2.93

240

St. Andrews New Golf Club

2.96

488

Colvin

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.