Porcupine
A tartan of the Porcupine family.
Its design is pattern BRBYBGGGBWW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Porcupine tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porcupine | N/4 R4 N12 LY4 N4 DY32 Y28 G4 N4 LB4 W/4 | 200 | 1956 | |
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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.
ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
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200

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254

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406

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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.