Heddle
A tartan of the Heddle family.
Its design is pattern BKBGBKBBBKBBBKBBBKBGBKBW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Designed by Scott Heddle for his 2003 wedding at St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney; adopted as the Heddle family tartan.
The Heddle tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heddle | DP/24 K4 DB8 DY4 DB8 K4 DB4 DP16 DB4 K4 DB48 DP16 DB48 K4 DB4 DP16 DB4 K4 DB8 DY4 DB8 K4 DP24 W/6 | 526 | 2003 | |
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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.


