Mead

A tartan of the Mead family.

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

The Mead tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Mead		B/72 K6 R12 K6 DB20 R10 DB6 LY8 K2 B/4	216	2012

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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216

Mead

0.19

216

Mead Modern Dress

2.56

174

Scottish Knights Templar International

2.72

498

Australia 2000

2.85

320

Masai Shuka 11

2.90

272

St. Leonards

2.95

180

Bell of the Borders.

3.06

206

Historic Scotland

3.14

268

Leando Dress

3.23

236

Law of Heather Athol

3.27

402

State Seal of Colorado

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.