MacDougall
A tartan of the MacDougall family.
Its design is pattern WBRGRGRBBRBGRGRBRBRW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Complex clan sett, earliest documented in the Highland Society of London collection, signed by the chief around 1815.
The MacDougall tartan groups 4 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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| MacDougall ★ | W/2 DP4 R2 G44 R6 G2 R6 DB18 DP4 R2 DP4 G16 R16 G16 R2 DB2 R44 DP4 R4 W/2 | 396 | — | |
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| Clan Tartan | 0.19 | W/4 LP4 R4 G44 R6 G2 R6 DB18 LP4 R4 LP4 G16 R16 G16 R4 DB4 R44 LP4 R4 W/4 | 416 | 1977 |
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| MacDougall | 0.28 | W/2 DP6 R2 G46 R6 G2 R6 DB12 DP8 R2 DP8 G12 R12 G12 R4 DB2 R48 DP2 R2 W/2 | 388 | — |
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| MacDougall | 3.29 | LB/4 DR24 R8 G144 R16 G8 R16 DB36 DR24 R8 DR24 G36 R36 G36 R16 DB8 R144 DR12 R8 LB/2 | 1214 | — |
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Also known as
This tartan is also recorded under:
- MacDougall 7
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.