Duke of Edinburgh

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

The Duke of Edinburgh tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Duke of Edinburgh		DG/84 R6 DG8 R16 DG14 K8 DB6 K2 DB6 K2 DB6 K2 DG4 LB3 DG16 LB3 DG4 K6 DB8 K3 DB6 K3 DB8 K10 Y3 W3 K3 W6 DG16 R8 K3 R4 W4 R/4	488	~1955

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

—

488

Duke of Edinburgh

3.17

284

MacMaster

3.50

670

Cockburn

3.53

552

West Lothian Woolen Mill

3.56

356

St. Andrews Soc. of New York

3.60

488

Lindenwood University

3.86

1864

Unidentified Plaid 14

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.