MacShane

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

The MacShane tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MacShane		DG/36 W8 DG36 K8 LY56 LYi16 W8 R/8	308	~2002

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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308

MacShane

1.58

168

Red Deer, City of

1.81

110

Burnfoot Check

2.14

262

Cornish Christophers

2.30

308

McShane

2.32

224

Bisset

2.33

294

Brittany Hunting French Fancy

2.48

234

Mitsukoshi Sendai

2.50

196

Wilson's, No 109

2.52

240

Wallace Memorial Centenary

2.58

216

Sawyer

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.