MacEwen

A tartan of the MacEwen family.

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

The MacEwen tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MacEwen		K/4 G24 K24 DB4 K4 DB4 K4 DB28 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K24 G24 K4 R4 K4 G24 K24 DB24 K4 DB4 K4 DB24 K24 G24 K4 LY/4	664	1880

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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664

MacEwen

0.68

426

Campbell of Argyll

1.31

214

Campbell Argyll

1.63

1648

Campbell

1.66

1632

Campbell of Stracathro

1.95

536

Lamquet

2.14

536

Lamquet

2.17

472

Allen, Christopher Holler

2.20

472

Allen

2.30

436

Rankin

2.34

1304

Murray

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.