Sorbie

A tartan of the Sorbie family.

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

The Sorbie tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Sorbie		K/4 T68 K68 T4 R4 T4 K68 T68 K4 W/4	584	2003

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

—

584

Sorbie

1.84

350

Nowell/Noel 1951

1.97

436

Slanj

2.18

298

Ewbank

2.32

200

Martin's Own

2.45

296

Sorbie

2.58

598

Home

2.75

298

Hannay

2.98

320

Wcwm 972-2

3.01

368

Oakleigh

3.05

444

South African Air Force

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.