MacDonald 1

A tartan of the MacDonald family.

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

The MacDonald 1 tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MacDonald 1		G/4 R4 DB2 R48 DB12 R6 G24 R8 DB/2	214	—

Also known as

This tartan is also recorded under:

• MacDonald #7

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

—

214

MacDonald 1

0.39

218

MacDonell of Keppoch

1.33

254

Crawford

1.75

792

Franklin Museum Unidentified 2

1.76

268

Robertson

1.79

348

Chisholm, The

2.07

888

Unidentified 20

2.20

294

Chisholm of Strathglass

2.27

348

Grant of Glenmoriston

2.31

270

Robertson

2.32

272

Robertson 6

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.