McDill

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

The McDill tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
McDill		W/2 DR4 Y4 DR40 DB2 DR2 K12 DR12 K12 Y4 DR2 Y4 DB12 DR6 K2 DR6 K40 DR2 Y4 W/2	344	2015

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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344

McDill

2.25

314

Anderson of Kinnedear

2.50

274

Ruxton

2.60

476

Scottish Register of Tartans

2.73

216

Capercaillie

2.83

266

Baron of Greencastle Dress

2.94

268

Harmon

2.94

726

Griffiths of Llangynin

2.95

608

Pilette of Kinnear

3.11

248

Nike Golf Dark

3.12

358

Integrated Landscape Management

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.