Johnston Orange/Black (Corporate)
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 WYKYKYKY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5307
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1945 — Johnston Orange/Black (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
This black & orange variation of Johnston was used commercially ca. 1945 to 1965 by Atlas Asbestos Co. ( Atlas Textile Co.,) of North Wales. PA, USA. Owned by a Johnston family who modified the ink on printing plates when the "company colours" of orange and black were adopted. - pre 2010 — Atlas Textile (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
This black and orange (the company colours) variation of the Johnston tartan used commercially ca. 1945 to 1965 by the Atlas Textile Co. of North Wales, Pennsylvania. B This was Bill Johnston's family company - BJ was a great tartan supporter, researcher and benefactor who was President of TECA Prior to World War II Bill travelled widely for the family firm, even to Japan. As a Quaker he would not serve in the military but was also exempt because of his essential military supply service. The Atlas Textile Company made parachuite webbing during the war and they also made the wick for every single Zippo lighter - a famous lighter used during World War II because the hinged lid shielded the flame from the wind. Info from Dr Phil DSmith Feb. 2010.
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
- 1945 (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: 8090
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 8090
Thread count
LO/4 K4 LO4 K48 LO48 K4 LO4 W/4
One full sett is 232 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| 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/s8/w1lo1k1lo12k12lo1k1lo1~x4/