John.W.Mackay

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

The John.W.Mackay tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
John.W.Mackay		K/8 G70 LO2 K36 G6 DB36 DR6 G6 DR/6	338	1996

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• Mackay, John
• Mackay, John W.

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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338

John.W.Mackay

0.36

334

John.W.Mackay, Restricted

1.94

248

Kerby/Kirby

2.00

284

MacNeil 3

2.20

262

Sutherland

2.22

262

Stansbury

2.33

264

Sinclair Hunting

2.38

360

New Hampshire

2.40

250

Armstrong

2.44

324

Hunting, The

2.47

246

MacDonnald of ye Ylis

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.