Forbes
A tartan of the Forbes family.
Its design is pattern BKBKGKWKGKBKB — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Forbes tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forbes | DB/8 K8 DB48 K48 G48 K8 W8 K8 G48 K48 DB48 K8 DB/8 | 672 | 1831 | |
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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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672
589
328
256
176
314
224
332
374
336
172
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.