Ruairidh
A tartan of the Ruairidh family.
Its design is pattern BBWBWBKBYWYWYBKGBK — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Ruairidh tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruairidh | N/17 DR41 W5 DR5 W5 DR41 K17 N17 LY36 LB6 LY6 LB6 LY36 N17 K17 DY36 N17 K/7 | 640 | ~2008 | |
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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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640

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440

430

410

236

744

302

440

492

412

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.