Sinclair

A tartan of the Sinclair family.

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

Sinclair clan tartan, a minor variation on the Cockburn specimen (1810-15), depicted in a portrait of Alexander, 13th Earl of Caithness.

The Sinclair tartan groups 4 setts — the same named design recorded as different cloths (its kilt, Carpet, Child's…, or a transcription apart). The master sett (★) is the exemplar.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
SinclairR/56 G32 K8 W2 DB12 R/562201830
Sinclair sett
Sinclair0.47R/144 T32 W4 K20 G80 R/724881831
Sinclair sett
Sinclair0.61R/30 G12 K5 W2 LB6 R/301101815
Sinclair sett
  · ×1 — Sinclair0.61R/30 G12 K5 W2 LB6 R/301101815
  · ×2 — Sinclair0.61R/60 G24 K10 W4 LB12 R/60220
2 Variants: Sinclair · Sinclair
Sinclair0.98R/30 G12 K5 W8 R/30110
Sinclair sett

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.

Sinclair DressSinclair of AuldbarCaithnessKinnairdHighlands at Wyomissing, TheUnidentified LocketNicolson DressPlummerMacPhailLeach, Leech, Leitch, dressgroundcomplexity

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