Zimbabwe

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

The Zimbabwe tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Zimbabwe		K/32 W8 K4 W8 K4 R16 Y16 G16 K2 DB48 W/12	288	2007

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

—

288

Zimbabwe

1.91

322

Groen

1.92

242

Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association

1.93

344

Louise of Lorne

2.05

242

Royal Scottish P.B. Assoc.

2.46

412

Beaton

2.47

368

Caledonian Society of Prince Edward Island

2.48

414

Craparo

2.49

362

George

2.60

756

Unidentified Flora MacDonald

2.60

640

Galt, Alexander, Sir

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.