Gilt Edge

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

The Gilt Edge tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Gilt Edge		DB/6 DBi4 LB62 DB68 W/4	278	1998

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

—

278

Gilt Edge

1.79

164

Loch Lomond

1.99

78

Laval

2.28

280

Lewis Navy

2.41

332

Port Authority of NY & NJ

2.42

276

St. Andrews, Earl of

2.42

300

U.S.S. John Paul Jones

2.44

264

St Andrews Earl of Royal

2.48

148

Corries

2.64

226

Aberdeen Academy of Performing Art

2.75

288

Ailsa Royal

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.