MacFarlane

A tartan of the MacFarlane family.

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

The MacFarlane tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MacFarlane		R/168 K4 G48 W8 R12 K4 R12 W8 G8 DP48 K16 R12 W16 G12 W16 R12 K16 DP48 G8 W8 R12 K4 R12 W8 G48 K4 R/84	1060	1831

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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1060

MacFarlane

2.82

302

Hawick

2.85

850

MacLean

3.01

396

Chattan

3.04

1436

Unidentified 28

3.15

500

Wood Dress

3.19

1364

Unidentified Plaid 4

3.20

1364

Unidentified

3.23

286

Lendrum

3.28

296

Women's Wear Daily Dress

3.29

194

MacBain

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.