Goldwire

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

The Goldwire tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Goldwire		K/6 Y6 K6 Y6 K6 Y6 K6 Y6 K72 W2 K4 DB18 R4 DB/2	292	2015

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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292

Goldwire

1.62

256

Longmount

1.79

224

Langtree

1.90

288

Marsa Scout Group

1.97

300

Williams Dress

2.01

256

Glen Ross (WCWM

2.20

190

Stewart, Black ground

2.28

234

Watt

2.34

346

Pride of Scotland Contemporary

2.35

492

Quraysh

2.59

220

Clan An Caigeann

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.