Forbes

A tartan of the Forbes family.

Its design is pattern GKGKGR — 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		R/2 G32 K16 G8 K8 Y/2	132	—

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• Forbes #6

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

—

132

Forbes

0.07

64

Forbes VS

0.92

132

MacArthur-Fox

1.00

232

Selvon-Bruce

1.00

232

Sevlon Bruce

1.02

246

MacArthur-Fox Hunting

1.26

284

Vipont

1.51

132

Gunn VS

1.51

152

Innes

1.54

174

Fife, Duchess of..

1.57

302

Sir Billi

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.