MacWatts

A tartan of the MacWatts family.

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

The MacWatts tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MacWatts		G/14 DP4 G4 DP24 G4 K4 G2 K24 DBi4 DB24 DBi4 DB4 DBi14 K4 R6 K4 DBi14 DB4 DBi4 DB24 DBi4 K24 G2 K4 G4 DP24 G4 DP4 G14 Y/8	542	2004

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

—

542

MacWatts

2.86

282

MacWatts

3.25

762

Hird

3.43

300

Anderson

3.60

328

Kukri

3.71

500

Hawick

3.81

678

Leinster

3.86

200

Glendinning

3.89

276

Anderson 11

3.90

466

Renton

3.95

408

MacDonald of Pr Edward Island

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.