Tommy

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

The Tommy tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Tommy		O/8 K2 O10 K8 DB22 W4 DB22 K8 W4 O4 W30 K4 W/6	250	2001

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

—

250

Tommy

1.30

308

Dinarzh: Fortress of the Bear

1.75

308

Dinarzh:

2.13

228

McRae, Dress

2.27

306

MacDonald Pattern of Plaids

2.27

204

Knights Templar St Andrews

2.35

184

Independence

2.48

274

Carnegie

2.50

266

Campbell Dress

2.52

348

Trillard

2.57

316

Sutherland Dress, Old

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.