MacHinery Dress

A tartan of the MacHinery family.

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

The MacHinery Dress tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MacHinery Dress		LB/12 LY4 LB48 W8 LB8 DR4 DB32 LB40 W8 LB40 DB32 W32 DB6 W/8	544	1984

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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544

MacHinery Dress

2.39

288

Balamory

2.41

348

Illinois State

2.57

288

Balamory Fancy

2.89

296

Portree

3.62

494

Portmeirion

3.85

296

Portree

3.88

308

Skye Dress Blue, Earl of

3.89

176

Unidentified Scarlett

3.98

301

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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.