MacBrair Hunting

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

The MacBrair Hunting tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MacBrair Hunting		LY/114 K2 R24 W2 G24 R28 W2 R/4	282	1982

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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282

MacBrair Hunting

0.82

536

MacByrd

1.40

282

McBrayer Dress

1.43

264

Unidentified Blanket

1.52

568

Wilson's Blanket Pattern

2.16

568

McBrayer

2.17

200

Brisbane

2.84

294

Drummond of Perth

3.50

604

Bell's Whisky

3.72

216

Masai Shuka 10

3.93

204

Strang

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.