MacIver
A tartan of the MacIver family.
Its design is pattern KRKRW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Introduced by H. Whyte in 1906; sept of Campbell, MacKenzie, or Robertson depending on region.
The MacIver tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacIver | K/32 R4 K4 R24 W/2 | 98 | — | |
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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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98

118

258

172

228

192

252

170

90

176

94

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.