MDF

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

The MDF tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
MDF		DB/74 W4 DB4 Y4 R34 W4 DB4 G34 Y4 DB/4	262	~2010

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

—

262

MDF

1.65

350

Solway Spirit

2.48

200

Glen Moray

2.57

368

Yamaue

2.59

488

Colvin

2.64

228

Kruenaegel-Schropp

2.67

152

Michigan State

2.74

304

Maine, Original State of

2.78

262

Christmas Morning

2.79

448

Kormylo

2.86

296

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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.