MacVicker

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

The MacVicker tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MacVicker		DB/24 DY4 Y4 DY4 DB4 DY20 G20 DY6 G24 DY20 DB22 R4 Y/4	292	2009

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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292

MacVicker

0.04

300

MacVicar, McVicar, McVicker

1.66

480

Niagra Falls

2.15

480

Niagara Falls

2.17

372

Buchanan Hunting

2.18

172

Limerick

2.30

304

Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Khaki

2.72

360

Hash House Harriers Hunting

2.73

520

Murray of Atholl

2.74

200

Harmony, 2 & 3

2.82

576

Boys Brigade

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.