St. Matthews Check

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

The St. Matthews Check tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
St. Matthews Check		DB/4 LY42 DB22 DBi42 DB/2	218	2009

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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218

St. Matthews Check

2.33

436

Afternoon Tea / Mint Tea

2.49

234

Keela

3.12

200

F.I.A.T.A. Congress 1990

3.68

280

Bannockbane

3.71

288

Wallace

3.79

188

Grey Watch, Dress

3.95

168

North Sea Commission

3.97

154

Unidentified No 52

3.98

216

Bannockbane Silver

4.00

240

Wimbledon

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.