Armstrong (Clan)
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 GKGKBKBKBR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=793
Provenance
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.
6 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1842 — Armstrong (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
The Armstrongs were a lowland family and as such would not traditionally have had a tartan. However . . . the Sobieski Stewarts 'invented' one for them in their 1842 Vestiarium Scoticum and it took hold as it was then included in J Claude's 1880 pattern books 'Clans Originaux' and 'Scotch Tartans' with a much lighter green. Lochcarron swatch. - 1842 — Armstrong Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Armstrong (weddslist, record)
- undated — Armstrong (weddslist, record)
- undated — Armstrong (weddslist, record)
- undated — Armstrong (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1842 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 793
Thread count
R/6 DB24 K2 DB2 K2 DB4 K24 G60 K2 G/4
One full sett is 250 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 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.
ID: /variants/s10/r3db12k1db1k1db2k12g30k1g2~x2/