MacDona
Its design is pattern KGRGBGR — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Family tartan from Paton's collection at the Scottish Tartans Museum, assembled around the 1830s with Victorian additions.
The MacDona tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacDona | R/35 G52 DB18 G17 R12 G17 K/18 | 285 | 1892 | |
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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
Variant
Sett
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285
362
258
206
148
108
164
64
270
268
394
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.