MacBeth Dress
A tartan of the MacBeth family.
Its design is pattern WBKBGKWKWKBYBWBW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The MacBeth Dress tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacBeth Dress | W/4 DR12 K4 DR12 G16 K4 W4 K4 W4 K4 DB24 LO8 DB16 W56 DB4 W/4 | 352 | 1989 | |
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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
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Sett
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352

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396

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250

268

300

492

256

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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.