Ulster
A tartan of the Ulster family.
Its design is pattern GKGBGKGKBKYK — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Irish district tartan from Ulster; originally listed as MacNeil, reidentified by weaver Ken Dalgliesh in 1999.
The Ulster tartan groups 2 setts — the same named design recorded as different cloths (its kilt, Carpet, Child's…, or a transcription apart). The master sett (★) is the exemplar.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
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| Ulster ★ | G/40 K4 G40 DR4 G4 K4 G4 K4 DR40 K4 LO4 K/4 | 268 | 1590 | |
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| Ulster | 0.61 | G/39 K3 G39 R3 G3 K3 G3 K3 R39 K3 Y3 K/3 | 246 | ~1999 |
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Also known as
This tartan is also recorded under:
- Ulster Red
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.