YMCA

A tartan of the YMCA family.

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

Variation of the Clergy tartan, encoding the YMCA's 1844 founding date and global membership.

The YMCA tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
YMCA		R/8 W2 DR72 DB8 K2 DB6 K20 W2 DB8 W2 K16 W/2	286	2013

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

—

286

YMCA

2.23

312

Hudson Bay Company

2.32

222

Gedling, Peter

2.47

358

Integrated Landscape Management

2.57

396

Rikaco Holiday

2.60

288

Diamond Jubilee

2.67

256

El Dorado Hills Firefighters Pipes and Drums

2.69

256

El Dorado Hills P & D

2.70

292

German American

2.85

266

Baron of Greencastle Dress

2.91

280

Superstition Fire Honor Guard Pipes

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.