European Union

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

Designed 1997/98 by William Chalmers of Kilsyth, using EU flag colours; red line marks bloodshed, white line peace.

The European Union tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
European UnionW/8 DB64 K2 Y4 K2 DB20 Y36 DB20 K2 DR/43121997
European Union sett

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.

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.

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