Watkins

A tartan of the Watkins family.

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

Welsh surname tartan (Walters, Watts, Gwatkin, Watkiss) woven at Cambrian Woollen Mill, with differing warp and weft creating a vertical stripe.

The Watkins 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.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
WatkinsG/2 DG2 DB5 DG4 DB10 T15 DG10 DR12 DG6 G4 DG6 DR12 DG10 T18 LB2 DB2 T18 DB1 G/2278~2004
Watkins sett
Welsh Name Tartan0.10G/2 DG2 DB5 DG4 DB10 T15 DG10 R12 DG6 G4 DG6 R12 DG10 T18 LB2 DB2 T18 DB1 G/2278~2004
Welsh Name Tartan sett

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.

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