Nithsdale
A tartan of the Nithsdale family.
Its design is pattern BBBBBBBGBB — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
District tartan for the Nith valley in Dumfriesshire, designed by Arthur Galt for Councillor John Hannay.
The Nithsdale tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nithsdale | DB/32 DR6 G6 DR20 DB48 DR6 DB6 DR6 DB6 DR/20 | 260 | 2002 | |
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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.