McBain

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

The McBain tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
McBainDR/120 W4 LB10 K4 W4 K4 LB10 W4 K4 G24 K4 W4 DR10 R10 G4 R10 DR10 G20 W/44041960
McBain sett

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.

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.

MacBainMacBeanMacBeanHawickMacMasterDundasDundasStewart of ArdshielHay & LeithMacBaingroundcomplexity

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