Holmes

A tartan of the Holmes family.

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

The Holmes tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
HolmesK/60 R6 K6 R6 K12 DB64 DG6 DB/62661880
Holmes sett

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.

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