JOHNSTON (MODERN) Choose:By the metre This sett is one of

This sett is one of those delivered to the Society between 1815 and 1822

except that the lines centered on the green are white only

Famous for it's isolation and wild

Scottish Tartans Society notes add that it was possibly a Fencibles tartan

JOHNSTON (MODERN) Choose:By the metre This sett is one ofAlso Johnstone. Scottish Tartans Society notes: A powerful Border Clan who pursued a deadly feud with the Maxwells. Their stronghold was Lochwood Tower, near Beattock, which was burned down by the Maxwells in 1593. The tartan was first published in the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. Before that time Border tartans were generally unnamed. More likely the tartan came from the Aberdeenshire Johnstons, whose family seat is at Caskieben, Blackburn.