Shepherd Historic Tartan Tartan Number: 1253. Earliest known date: 250 A.D. The Falkirk Tartan. An ornamental twill weave check of natural light and dark wool was discovered at Falkirk in the neck of a jar containing Roman coins. The find is thought to have been buried about 260 A.D. The black and white check is woven today as the Shepherd tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern KW.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 2 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1253
Thread count
K/15 LN/15
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
Sample pattern
ID: /setts/s2/k15w15-k101010-we0e0e0/