Falkirk
A tartan of the Falkirk family.
Its design is pattern KWKWKWYGR — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Jim McGeorge's 1989 competition-winning design for Falkirk, its colours echoing the ancient Falkirk cloth, foundries, waterways and crossroads.
The Falkirk tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falkirk | K/8 LB8 K4 LB8 K4 LB44 LY54 Y4 R/6 | 266 | 1990 | |
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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.
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.