Smith

A tartan of the Smith family.

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

Gow Hunting sett with dark blue stripe changed to azure; Gow is Gaelic for Smith, meaning metalworker.

The Smith tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
SmithDB/36 K40 G40 K10 G40 K40 DB36 LB/64541975
Smith 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.

DenholmMacIntyreHunterMitchellNorwich No.064Unnamed, No 31Unidentified No 31Unidentified No 39Unidentified No 63Forbo Nairngroundcomplexity

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