Dickson

A tartan of the Dickson family.

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

The Dickson tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Dickson		N/12 DBi16 N16 G24 DB58 W6 DB/8	260	2009

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

—

260

Dickson

2.38

308

Miller

2.49

200

Belfrage

2.55

214

Queen of the South

2.57

252

Mina Perhonen Japanese

2.84

308

American Express

2.87

424

State Seal of Iowa

2.94

282

U.S.I. Limited

2.98

248

Sverker

3.05

176

American Express

3.13

180

American Soc.of Travel Agents

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.