MacCraig

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

The MacCraig tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MacCraig		DR/16 LB8 G56 R8 K56 G8 DB56 R8 G/16	432	1746

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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432

MacCraig

1.53

220

Cowan of Inveresk

1.80

246

McCuaig

1.81

240

Kinloch Anderson Hunting

1.82

152

Cherokee

1.95

352

Scottish Cultural Society (Corporate

1.95

284

Gracey

2.00

264

Peebles Beltane Centenary

2.02

204

Council of Scottish Clans & Ass.

2.07

256

Veere

2.10

288

MacFrog

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.