Thompson

A tartan of the Thompson family.

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

The Thompson tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Thompson		K/8 LB56 R12 W24 R24 W/6	246	1998

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• Thompson, D.C.

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

—

246

Thompson

1.82

98

Boswell Dress

1.83

288

Ailsa Pink

1.88

284

Arduaine

2.10

250

MacPherson Dress Burgandy

2.11

250

MacPherson Dress Burgundy

2.72

264

Yale College of Wrexham

2.72

220

Yale College, Wrexham

2.83

292

Merida Dance

3.06

76

Winnipeg Embroiderers' Guild

3.10

246

MacTavish Dress

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.