Purple Thistle

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

The Purple Thistle tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Purple Thistle		DP/6 O30 N6 O6 R2 O2 R2 O2 R2 O2 R2 O2 R2 O2 R24 W30 DP/6	244	2013

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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244

Purple Thistle

2.55

316

MacLean of Duart, dress

2.59

452

MacDougall 10

2.71

316

MacLean of Duart Dress

2.72

316

MacLean of Duart Dress

2.96

340

MacGlashan

2.97

320

Strathtay

3.02

324

Sakura

3.05

370

North West Mounted Police

3.15

522

MacPherson

3.31

340

Setting Sun, The

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.