Laing of Archiestown
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 BRWRK.
Part of the Laing of Archiestown tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2544
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1783 — Laing of Archiestown (tartans-authority, record)
Taken from a piece of tartan of uncertain age but said to be woven in 1783 in Knockando, Morayshire. Source said to be William Donald Laing of Queensland, Australia who donated it to the Tartans Society in 1996. The dark line in the centre of the red band is either blue or black. Apparently William Laing acquired the piece of tartan in 1961 from a Mr Jack Garden whose g.g. grandfather was John Laing (dob 1767) who wove the tartan. In the 1810 census he lived in his shop in the Square at Archiestown. 9.10.2014 From John Gillespie of Knockando Wool Mill. "Until quite recently there was a very small weaving operation in the Square at Archiestown. . . . last owner died probably late1980's or early 1990's and the house was cleared out in the late 1990's by his daughter. There is some written and photographic record of that . . . apparently the old man was unwell and took off his glasses and laid them on his loom just before he passed away. The glasses were still there when the house was cleared!" - undated — Laing of Archiestown (register-of-tartans, record)
Taken from a piece of tartan of uncertain age but said to be woven in 1783 in Knockando, Morayshire. Source said to be William Donald Laing of Queensland, Australia who donated it to the Scottish Tartans Society in 1996. The dark line in the centre of the red band is either blue or black. Apparently William Laing acquired the piece of tartan in 1961 from a Mr Jack Garden whose great great grandfather was John Laing (date of birth 1767) who wove the tartan. In the 1810 census he lived in his shop in the Square at Archiestown.
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
- 1783 (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 Register of Tartans: 2028
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2544
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2544
Thread count
DB/64 R8 W8 R8 K/8
One full sett is 120 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s5/db8r1w1r1k1~x8/