MacGiboney
A tartan of the MacGiboney family.
Its design is pattern GWBWGWBWGW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Designed 1999 by Greg McGibonney of Fremont, California; shown from his woven sample.
The MacGiboney tartan is one sett, recorded at 2 scales — the same proportion woven finer or broader. The top row is the unit proportion; each scale row is one weaving of it.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacGiboney | G/5 LB5 T1 LB1 Y1 LB1 T1 LB5 G5 W/1 | 46 | 1999 | |
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| · ×4 — Clan Tartan | 0.00 | G/20 LB20 T4 LB4 Y4 LB4 T4 LB20 G20 W/4 | 184 | 1999 |
| · ×8 — Dress | 0.01 | G/40 LB40 T8 LB8 Y8 LB8 T8 LB40 G40 W/8 | 368 | 1999 |
| 2 Variants: Clan Tartan · Dress | ||||
Also known as
This tartan is also recorded under:
- MacGiboney Dress
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.


