MacRae
A tartan of the MacRae family.
Its design is pattern GRGRGRGRWRBR — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Clan MacRae tartan from the Smiths' 1850 manuscript, count corrected by D.C. Stewart.
The MacRae tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacRae | G/21 R5 G21 R21 G5 R4 G5 R21 W4 R5 DB21 R/4 | 249 | — | |
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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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249

460

152

576

589

66

138

320

328

476

304

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.