Argyll District 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 RKBKGKW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2079
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1798 W & S Smith (1850) records this pattern as Cawdor Campbell. Wilson records it as Argyll in 1819 (No. 230) and refers to an Argyll tartan in a letter of 1798. W. and A.K. Johnston (1906) calls it Argyll District tartan.
7 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1798 — Argyll District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1819 — Argyll (register-of-tartans, record)
Argyll is both a surname and also the name of an old Scottish county, Argyllshire. W & S Smith (1850) records this pattern as Cawdor Campbell. It is called Argyll No.230 in the pattern books of Wm Wilson and Sons of Bannockburn in 1819. There is also a reference to an Argyll tartan in a letter of 1798. W and A K Johnston (1906) call it the Argyll District tartan. Said to have been adopted by the MacCorquodales but another entry states that MacCorquodale has a different shade of blue in place of this green. - 1819 — Argyll (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Confusing that Argyll is a surname and also the name of an old Scottish county - Argyllshire. W & S Smith (1850) records this pattern as Cawdor Campbell. Wilson records it as Argyll in 1819 (No. 230) and refers to an Argyll tartan in a letter of 1798. W. and A.K. Johnston (1906) calls it Argyll District tartan. Said to have been adopted by the MacCorquodales but another entry states that MacCorquadale has a different shade of blue in place of this green (see #283). - undated — Argyll / MacCorquodale (weddslist, record)
- undated — Campbell of Cawdor (weddslist, record)
- undated — Campbell of Cawdor (weddslist, record)
- undated — Campbell of Cawdor (weddslist, record)
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
- 1798 (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: 109
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2079
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2079
Thread count
R/4 K2 DB16 K16 G16 K2 LB/4
One full sett is 112 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) |
| 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/s7/r2k1db8k8g8k1lb2~x2/