Sidney (Nova Scotia) Canadian Tartan Tartan Number: 1291. Earliest known date: 1986 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 RKWKRRRR.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1291
Thread count
N/32 K8 LN4 K8 N12 R22 N4 R/32

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 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #C80000 | 0.24 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Banff — ΔT 0.73
- MacKintosh-Geddes (Personal?) — ΔT 0.76
- Henkel — ΔT 0.85
- Sydney (Nova Scotia) (District) — ΔT 0.90
- St. Andrews (Queens University) (Cor — ΔT 0.93
- St Andrews — ΔT 0.95
- Convention of the Baronage (Corp) — ΔT 0.98
- MacBean/MacElvain — ΔT 1.02
- Manhattan Ethnic — ΔT 1.03
- Leitrim — ΔT 1.07
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 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.
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