Patterns › KW A tartan of Clan Shepherd .
Its design is pattern KW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
The Shepherd or Falkirk tartan is recorded as a single sett.
Setts a curator has related to this tartan — what it derived from and what derived from it.
The Shepherd's Check is the black-and-white form of the Falkirk sett — the oldest surviving Scottish tartan (c. 3rd century AD), a simple 2:2 check recovered in undyed brown-and-white wool near Falkirk. Restated in dyed black and white it became the Border shepherds' plaid from which a long line of district checks descends. The Shepherd's Check is the black-and-white form of the Falkirk sett — the oldest surviving Scottish tartan (c. 3rd century AD), a simple 2:2 check recovered in undyed brown-and-white wool near Falkirk. Restated in dyed black and white it became the Border shepherds' plaid from which a long line of district checks descends. The Shepherd's Check is the black-and-white form of the Falkirk sett — the oldest surviving Scottish tartan (c. 3rd century AD), a simple 2:2 check recovered in undyed brown-and-white wool near Falkirk. Restated in dyed black and white it became the Border shepherds' plaid from which a long line of district checks descends. The Shepherd's Check is the black-and-white form of the Falkirk sett — the oldest surviving Scottish tartan (c. 3rd century AD), a simple 2:2 check recovered in undyed brown-and-white wool near Falkirk. Restated in dyed black and white it became the Border shepherds' plaid from which a long line of district checks descends. The Shepherd's Check is the black-and-white form of the Falkirk sett — the oldest surviving Scottish tartan (c. 3rd century AD), a simple 2:2 check recovered in undyed brown-and-white wool near Falkirk. Restated in dyed black and white it became the Border shepherds' plaid from which a long line of district checks descends. The Shepherd's Check is the black-and-white form of the Falkirk sett — the oldest surviving Scottish tartan (c. 3rd century AD), a simple 2:2 check recovered in undyed brown-and-white wool near Falkirk. Restated in dyed black and white it became the Border shepherds' plaid from which a long line of district checks descends. The Shepherd's Check is the black-and-white form of the Falkirk sett — the oldest surviving Scottish tartan (c. 3rd century AD), a simple 2:2 check recovered in undyed brown-and-white wool near Falkirk. Restated in dyed black and white it became the Border shepherds' plaid from which a long line of district checks descends. The Shepherd's Check is the black-and-white form of the Falkirk sett — the oldest surviving Scottish tartan (c. 3rd century AD), a simple 2:2 check recovered in undyed brown-and-white wool near Falkirk. Restated in dyed black and white it became the Border shepherds' plaid from which a long line of district checks descends. Haig is one of the Border district checks built on the Shepherd's Check. Haig is one of the Border district checks built on the Shepherd's Check. Haig is one of the Border district checks built on the Shepherd's Check. Haig is one of the Border district checks built on the Shepherd's Check. Haig is one of the Border district checks built on the Shepherd's Check. Haig is one of the Border district checks built on the Shepherd's Check. Haig is one of the Border district checks built on the Shepherd's Check. Haig is one of the Border district checks built on the Shepherd's Check. Shepherd Shepherd or Falkirk Haig Check
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derived-from : Shepherd — The Shepherd's Check is the black-and-white form of the Falkirk sett — the oldest surviving Scottish tartan (c. 3rd century AD), a simple 2:2 check recovered in undyed brown-and-white wool near Falkirk. Restated in dyed black and white it became the Border shepherds' plaid from which a long line of district checks descends.parent-of : Haig Check — Haig is one of the Border district checks built on the Shepherd's Check.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.
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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 .
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