Elgin
A tartan of the Elgin family.
Its design is pattern BRBWKWY — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Recorded by the Scottish Tartans Society between 1970 and 1990; district tartan for Elgin.
The Elgin tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elgin | DO/16 O4 DO20 W16 K4 W4 LR/4 | 116 | 1988 | |
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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
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116
116
262
304
314
356
210
282
150
220
210
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.