Bands: KWKW · Stripes: K W K W K W K W

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

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• Covenanter
• Lendrum (B&W)
• MacFarlane B/W or Lendrum Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1251. Earliest known date: 1842 The design comes from the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842). The authors, the Sobieski Stuart brothers, enjoyed a popular following among the Scottish gentry in the early Victorian era, and in the spirit of the times, added mystery, romance and some spurious historical documentation to the subject of tartan. Of the better known tartans, the book offers some minor variation, but in other cases it provides the only recorded version of many tartans in use today. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
• MacPhee (Black and White)

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 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.

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