In pattern RWKWKWKW.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1378

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1834 — Glen Feshie Check (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1834 - 1841 — Glen Feshie (Estate Check) (tartans-authority, record)

Thread count

R/8 W8 K6 W8 K8 W8 K8 W/8

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. Buccleuch Check (9 squares) — ΔT 1.55
2. Buccleuch, Check — ΔT 1.59
3. Buccleuch Check Regimental Tartan Tartan Number: 647. Earliest known date: 1908 Designed by the Colonel of the 4th Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers in 1908 and used for the pipers' plaids. Originally woven by Ballantynes of Walkerburn. Earl Haig's family adopted it since he was also a Colonel of the battalion.This - according to J Cant - is the correct version of the Buccleuch check with nine black squares between the blue. The black and white squares measure 5/16 inch and the blue 3/8 inch (about 2 threads more?). Sample in STA Dalgety Collection has 8 black squares between the blue lines and label saying woven by Ballantynes of Walkerburn. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.63
4. Strathspey (Estate Check) — ΔT 1.80
5. Dupplin Check — ΔT 1.80
6. Haig Check (Estate Check) — ΔT 1.82
7. Hogg — ΔT 1.88
8. Border Bell — ΔT 2.04
9. Bell, Border (Name) — ΔT 2.04
10. Scott, Sir Walter #3 — ΔT 2.04

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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