MacAlpine
A tartan of the MacAlpine family.
Its design is pattern BGBGKGBGBWKGKG — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Black-and-green hunting design with yellow lines, first recorded 1908; resembles hunting MacLean but for the Siol Alpin clan.
The MacAlpine 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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| MacAlpine ★ | DB/16 G4 DB4 G24 K4 G24 DB4 G4 DB16 W4 K16 G4 K16 Y/4 | 268 | 1906 | |
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| MacAlpine | 0.16 | B/16 G4 B4 G24 K4 G24 B4 G4 B16 W4 K16 G4 K16 Y/8 | 272 | — |
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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.