North American Sheep Breeders Association
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern BWYBWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3088
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/02/2007 — North American Sheep Breeders Association (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Kathy Baker (Nier Lakes Shetland Sheep, Alberta) and Linda Wendelboe in consultation with Gordon Kirkbright of Fraser Kirkbright of Vancouver. The tartan 'showcased' the natural colours of North American Shetland wool for North American Shetland Sheep Association's 2004 AGM, 'Focus on Fibre', held in Olds, Alberta. The tartan was woven from naturally coloured Canadian Shetland sheep wool. - Feb 2007 — NASSA (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Full name of tartan is North American Shetland Sheep Breeders Association. Designed by Kathy Baker (Nier Lakes Shetland Sheep, Alberta) and Linda Wendelboe in consultation with Gordon Kirkbright of Fraser Kirkbright of Vancouver. The tartan 'showcased' the natural colours of North American Shetland wool for NASSA's 2004 AGM 'Focus on Fibre' held in Olds, Alberta. It was made from naturally coloured Canadian Shetland wool. Woven Sample
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 01/02/2007 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3088
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7097
Thread count
N/4 W2 LY34 N28 W30 N4 W/4
One full sett is 204 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants 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 page.
ID: /variants/s7/n2w1ly17n14w15n2w2~x2/