Shepherd Check (Universal)
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 2 band tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/1253/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 260 AD — Shepherd Check (Universal) (tartans-authority, record)
- 260 AD — Northumberland (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
K/6 LN/6

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 #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Falkirk Tartan — ΔT 0.62
- Shepherd — ΔT 0.75
- Shepherd Check — ΔT 0.75
- Shepherd or Falkirk — ΔT 1.44
- Shepherd — ΔT 1.44
- Shepherd Brown & White (Fashion?) — ΔT 1.61
- Wilson's, No 116 — ΔT 1.70
- Justus Check (Personal) — ΔT 1.77
- Justus Check (Personal) — ΔT 1.77
- Sillitoe — ΔT 1.78
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s2/k1w1~x6/