Independence

A tartan of the Independence family.

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

Designed 1996 by Donald Fraser for New Scots for Independence; launched at an SNP conference.

The Independence tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
IndependenceK/4 LO4 B32 LO4 K4 LO4 LB4 LO4 LB30 LO2 K4 LO/41921996
Independence 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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