In pattern KWKW.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3781

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 3781
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1253
• Scottish Tartans World Register: 1253

Related setts

Setts a curator has related to this one.

• derived-from: Shepherd — The Shepherd's Check is the black-and-white form of the Falkirk sett — the oldest surviving Scottish tartan (c. 3rd century AD), a simple 2:2 check recovered in undyed brown-and-white wool near Falkirk. Restated in dyed black and white it became the Border shepherds' plaid from which a long line of district checks descends.
• parent-of: Haig Check — Haig is one of the Border district checks built on the Shepherd's Check.

Thread count

K/6 LY6 K6 LY/6

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Sample pattern

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Shepherd Check (Universal) — ΔT 1.44
2. Falkirk Tartan — ΔT 1.45
3. Hogg — ΔT 1.46
4. Shepherd (Brown & White) — ΔT 1.48
5. Shepherd — ΔT 1.68
6. Shepherd Check — ΔT 1.68
7. Northumberland — ΔT 1.82
8. Buccleuch, Check — ΔT 1.99
9. Shepherd Brown & White (Fashion?) — ΔT 2.04
10. Haig Check (Estate Check) — ΔT 2.05

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 14299 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/s4/k1w1~x6/