MacAulay
A tartan of the MacAulay family.
Its design is pattern KRGRGWGRGWGRGRK — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The MacAulay tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacAulay | K/8 R72 G28 R12 G40 W4 G40 R12 G40 W4 G40 R12 G28 R72 K/4 | 820 | 1831 | |
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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.
ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
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820

336

194

396

290

340

240

266

320

232

272

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.