MacKintosh/MacPherson

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

The MacKintosh/MacPherson tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MacKintosh/MacPherson		R/72 G16 Y2 K12 LB8 K2 LB2 K2 LB8 R22 W2 K2 R/2	230	—

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• MacKintosh, MacPherson

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

—

230

MacKintosh/MacPherson

1.32

506

Stewart of Rothesay

1.78

196

Scottish Banner, The

1.83

262

Stuart / Stewart

2.04

230

British Lions

2.07

95

Stewart Royal

2.21

274

Day

2.24

198

British Caledonian Airways

2.50

176

TIlted

2.51

294

Drummond of Perth

2.56

284

MacFarlane

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.