McCarter

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

The McCarter tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
McCarter		LO/8 K4 DY30 K4 G30 DB30 K4 R/2	214	2016

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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214

McCarter

1.52

184

Sey

1.91

362

George

1.99

224

James

2.01

220

Morris of Balgonie Hunting

2.07

180

Young

2.12

320

Rutledge

2.15

300

Trades House

2.17

260

Redgate Hunting

2.24

316

Tait

2.28

254

Caisteal Leòdhais

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.