Campbell of Argyll Dress Clan Tartan
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 BKBKBKGWGKWWWWWWWWWKGGGK.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 24 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1962
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1906 One of the 'Dress' and 'Hunting' versions of clan tartans introduced for the first time in 1906 by H. Whyte's and others, 'The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland' published by W & A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh. The book contains over 200 tartans and is the fore-runner of Johnston's annual pocket editions.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1906 — Campbell of Argyll Dress Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Campbell Dress #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
One of the 'Dress' and 'Hunting' versions of clan tartans introduced for the first time in 1906 by H. Whyte, author of 'The Scottish Clans and Their Tartan' and others, published by W & A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh. The book contains over 200 tartans and is the fore-runner of Johnston's annual pocket editions.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1906 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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 Register of Tartans: 508
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1962
Thread count
K/24 G24 Y6 G24 K18 W10 LB12 W38 LB4 W12 LB4 W38 LB12 W10 K18 G24 W6 G24 K24 DB20 K4 DB4 K4 DB/20
One full sett is 724 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s24/k12g12y3g12k9w5lb6w19lb2w6lb2w19lb6w5k9g12w3g12k12db10k2db2k2db10~x2/