Laing of Archiestown Tartan
- Name of Tartan:
- Laing of Archiestown
- ITI Number:
- 2544
- Category:
- Clan/Family
- Designer / Source:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1783
- Colour Sequence:
- KRWRBRWR
- Thread Count:
- K8 XR8 CW8 XR8 B64 XR8 CW8 XR8
- Notes:
-
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.
