Shepherd
A tartan of the Shepherd family.
Its design is pattern GW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Black-and-white check from cloth found at Falkirk in a coin jar buried c.260 A.D.; woven today as Shepherd.
The Shepherd tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shepherd | DY/6 LB/6 | 12 | ~2002 | |
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Also known as
This tartan is also recorded under:
- Shepherd Brown & White
Related setts
Setts a curator has related to this tartan — what it derived from and what derived from it.
Arrows run parent → child; hover an arrow for the story of the transformation.
- parent-of: Shepherd or Falkirk — The black-and-white Shepherd's Check is the Falkirk sett restated in dyed wool.
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.
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.