MacKay

A tartan of the MacKay family.

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

The MacKay tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MacKay		G/12 DG56 G8 K56 G56 K12 G56 K56 G8 DG56 G/2	742	1831

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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742

MacKay

3.31

234

Delaware Fine Spirits Guild

3.36

710

Gunn

3.65

324

Hunting, The

3.71

266

Pride of Ireland

3.82

426

U.S. Border Patrol

3.83

76

Manor

3.85

306

Unnamed 6

4.00

386

Black Watch RHR

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.