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 KW.

Part of the Shepherd tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from research. It is a 2 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.nms.ac.uk/

Thread count

K/24 W/24

One full sett is 48 threads.

Palette

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.

ΔTartan

Threads

Variant

Sett

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48

Falkirk Tartan

1.40

100

Justus Check (Personal)

1.40

80

Justus Check (Personal)

1.40

200

Rob Roy, Black & Tan (Fashion)

1.40

12

Shepherd Brown & White (Fashion?)

1.40

4

Une Energie Nouvelle (Corporate) XXX

1.75

10

Gearach Woodcock Tweed (Corporate)

2.33

12

Shepherd Check (Universal)

2.33

30

Shepherd

2.33

56

Shepherd Check

2.33

2

Shepherd

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.

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