Armstrong

In pattern GKGKBKBKBR.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=115

Attestations

This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1842 — Armstrong (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1842 — Armstrong (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
• undated — Armstrong Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 793. Earliest known date: 1842 An act passed by the Scottish parliament in 1587 refers to the Border clans. Armstrongs claim descent from Fairbairn, armour bearers to the Kings of Scotland, who granted them land in the Borders. A story is told that these gifts were made as a result of a great feat of strength in rescueing the King when his horse was killed under him in the midst of battle. The first gathering of Armstrongs for 400 years was held at Tourneyholm in Liddesdale in 1979. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)

Thread count

G/4 K2 G60 K24 DBa4 K2 DBa2 K2 DBa24 R/6

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Johnston Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1063. Earliest known date: 1842 A powerful Border Clan who pursued a deadly feud with the Maxwells. Their stronghold was Lochwood Tower, near Beattock, which was burned down by the Maxwells in 1593. The tartan was first published in the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. Before that time Border tartans were generally un-named. More likely the tartan came from the Aberdeenshire Johnstons, whose family seat is at Caskieben, Blackburn. (Ref: The Setts.. No. 82. D.C.Stewart.) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.88
2. Park — ΔT 1.06
3. Unidentified (School) — ΔT 1.13
4. Johnstone Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1062. Earliest known date: pre 2003 This sett appears in Paton's collection which is housed at the Scottish Tartans Museum, Comrie in Perthshire, Scotland. The samples are undated but the collection is known to have been put together around the 1830's, with some additions during the Victorian period. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.14
5. Mackay, John W. (Personal) — ΔT 1.16
6. Zorra Caledonian Society — ΔT 1.17
7. Armstrong — ΔT 1.17
8. Armstrong — ΔT 1.17
9. Johnston — ΔT 1.19
10. Black Thistle — ΔT 1.20

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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