List of tartans
This is a list of tartans from around the world. The examples shown below are generally emblematic of a particular association. However, for each clan or family, there are often numerous other official or unofficial variations. There are also innumerable tartan designs that are not affiliated with any group but were simply created for aesthetic reasons.
Europe
Although tartans were first invented in the United Kingdom, other European countries would later follow with having their own by the beginning of the 21st century, including the Scandinavian region. The oldest is for Europe as a whole, created in 2000.British royal and noble tartans
Tartans in this section are those that are of the current or former British royal family or of individual British nobility members.| Image | Association | Origin | Notes |
| House of Stuart/Stewart | Highland clans, Scottish royalty | The Stewart tartan|Royal Stuart (or Royal Stewart) tartan], first published in 1831, is the best-known tartan of the royal House of Stuart/Stewart, and is one of the most recognizable tartans. Today, it is worn by the regimental pipers of the Black Watch, Scots Guards, and Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, among other official and organisational uses. It is commonly worn by the general public as a British symbol, though in theory it is the individual property of Charles III. | |
| House of Stuart/Stewart | Highland clans, Scottish royalty | Another "royal" tartan of the House of Stuart/Stewart. It was referred to by George V as "my personal tartan", though it appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum at least 23 years before his birth. While the work's historical claims have been shown to be spurious, it described the design as the "clanne Stewart tartan", and the work was popular, so the tartan would have been familiar before George's birth in 1865. It is worn officially today by the regimental pipers of the Scots Guards, and remains in common civilian use as a Stewart/Stuart clan tartan. | |
| Duke of Rothesay | Highland clans; Scottish royalty | The individual tartan of the Duke of Rothesay, a dynastic title of the heir-apparent to the British throne; currently Prince William. | |
| William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton | Lowlands, Scottish nobility | ||
| Prince Charles Edward Stuart tartan | Scottish nobility | Essentially the Royal Stewart tartan but with a much-reduced red square. William Wilson & Sons of Bannockburn included it in their 1819 Key Pattern Book |
UK military or government tartans
A number of tartans, worn by UK military units, are known as government tartans, and are defined in a standard currently maintained by Defence Equipment and Support within the Ministry of Defence. They are known by a number, a name, or both. The commonest in regimental use today are royal Stewart ; Government 1, Black Watch; and Government 1A, Sutherland district.For military wear, there are official specifications for the size of the full repeat of the sett, which vary by tartan. In kilt form, the tartans are worn with the central vertical line of the sett on the kilt's front apron running in-line with the buttons of the jacket and with the belt buckle; and the sett horizontally centred between the top of the sporran and the bottom of the belt buckle. Exactly how the kilt is pleated varies by unit.
The following table includes those government tartans worn by UK military units as from the 2006 creation of the Royal Regiment of Scotland onwards. Some other units may wear a named clan tartan without it being defined by this standard; these are covered in a second table below. For the Royal Regiment of Scotland, the pipes and drums in each battalion wear the uniform of their antecedent regiment for ceremonial dress purposes, but the Royal Regiment's standard Government 1A for non-ceremonial undress purposes.
| Image | Number | Name | Current units worn by; notes |
| 1 | Black Watch or "Government" | Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland drummers and drum major; inherited in succession from Black Watch, Black Watch, and 42nd Regiment of Foot. The tartan is also among the most common in civilian use, under various names like old Campbell, hunting Grant, hunting Munro, etc.. | |
| 1A | Sutherland district | Royal Regiment of Scotland including bands 51st Highland Volunteers drummers and drum major; inherited from Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. A partially lightened version of Black Watch. Though named "Sutherland", this light-green version is particular to regimental use; civilian use of Sutherland district tartan is generally with light blue instead. It is also unrelated to the Clan Sutherland tartan. | |
| 3 | Gordon | Formerly worn by the Gordon Highlanders. | |
| 4 | Cameron of Erracht | Highlanders pipers, pipe major, drummers, and drum major; inherited from the Highlanders pipers and drummers. | |
| 5A | MacKenzie | Royal Highland Fusiliers drum major and duty bugler ; inherited from Royal Scots Fusiliers and Highland Light Infantry upon their amalgamation. | |
| 6 | Douglas | Royal Gurkha Rifles pipers ; inherited from 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. | |
| 7 | Leslie | Former Royal Scots Borderers drummers ; disbanded in 2021; inherited from King's Own Scottish Borderers. | |
| 8 | Hunting Stewart | Former Royal Scots Borderers drum major ; disbanded in 2021; inherited from Royal Scots. Tayforth UOTC, including in kilt form inherited from the Dandy Ninth. | |
| 9 | Forbes | ||
| 11 | Red Erskine | Royal Highland Fusiliers pipers, pipe major, and drummers | |
| Royal Stewart | Black Watch pipers and pipe major 51st Highland Volunteers pipers and pipe major Scots Guards pipers Royal Scots Dragoon Guards pipers Former Royal Scots Borderers pipers and pipe major; disbanded in 2021. | ||
| Hunting Rose | Royal Tank Regiment pipes and drums, and officers in black-tie |
A number of other tartans are, since 2014, no longer listed as official uniform material by the Defense Clothing division of the Ministry of Defence, and "DC do not purchase or hold any of the cloth", but remain in use by some units' pipe bands and may be permitted for some other uses, such as uniform cap cockades, though are "unfunded". No. 1A was listed among these no-longer-official tartans in 2014, but in 2019 was included in the official tartans of the entire Royal Regiment of Scotland, so something clearly changed during that period.
| Image | Number | Name | Current units worn by; notes |
| 15 | Red Grant | 32nd Signal Regiment bandsmen; also used for the diamond-shaped cockade backing the badge on the regular uniform cap. Royal Corps of Signals pipers The regimental version of this tartan differs somewhat from the clan version. | |
| 16 | Red MacDuff | 154 (Scottish) Regiment RLC pipers and drummers; also used for the diamond-shaped cockade backing the badge on the regular uniform cap. The regimental version of this tartan differs somewhat from the clan version. Another tartan was created in 2018 in honour of the Royal Logistic Corps, but it is for civilian use and is a fundraiser for the RLC's MoD Benevolent fund; it is not used for regimental uniform. | |
| 18 | Red Robertson | ||
| 19 | Hunting Fraser | ||
| 22 | MacDonald of the Isles | ||
| 23 | MacDonald of Keppoch | ||
| Hunting Robertson | 19th Regiment Royal Artillery bandsmen | ||
| Murray of Atholl | Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse ; inherited from the original Scottish Horse. |
It is unclear from available official documentation what tartans correspond to the serial numbers now missing from the specifications: 5, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, and 25.
Scottish clan tartans
The tartans in this list are those ascribed to particular clans of Scotland, including Highland, Lowland, Isles, and Borders clans. Their statuses vary widely; armigerous clans generally accept them, while some have been officially adopted or rejected by a clan chief, which may often include tartans made for certain districts.| Image | Association | Origin | Notes |
| Abercromby | Lowland clans | ||
| Agnew | Lowland clans | ||
| Ainslie | |||
| Aiton | Lowland clans | ||
| Anderson | Shared with Clan Gillanders | ||
| Anstruther | Lowland clans | Also known as Duke of Fife tartan, shared with clans Beveridge, Ged, Kinloch, Kinnear, Lundin, Primrose, Balfour, Boswell and Kirkcaldy | |
| Arbuthnott | Lowland clans | ||
| Armstrong | Borders clans | ||
| Arnott | |||
| Arthur | Highland clans | Also known as "MacArthur"; has an additional tartan called "Milton". | |
| Baillie | |||
| Bain | |||
| Baird | |||
| Balfour | Lowland clans | ||
| Barclay | Lowland clans | ||
| Baxter | |||
| Bell | Borders clans | Also known as "Bell of the Borders" | |
| Bethune | Lowland clans | Also known as "MacBeth", shared with Clan McBain | |
| Bissett | Lowland clans | ||
| Blackadder | Also known as "Tweedside District", shared with clans Blyth, Learmonth, Spottiswood, Swinton and Boswell | ||
| Blackstock | |||
| Blair | Lowland clans | ||
| Borthwick | Lowland clans | ||
| Boswell | Lowland clans | ||
| Boyd | Lowland clans | Shared with clans Fairlie and Fullarton | |
| Brodie | Lowland clans | ||
| Broun | Lowland clans | ||
| Bruce | Lowland clans | Shared with clans Carruthers and Crosbie, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Kinnaird | |
| Buchan | |||
| Buchanan | Highland clans | The primary Buchanan tartan is known for its asymmetrical design dominated by yellow and red. A symmetrical version called "Buchanan old sett" exists. Several other tartans are recognised by the clan association, which also rejects a number of others that have been invented by weavers or which originated in the Vestiarium Scoticum of 1842. | |
| Cameron | Highland clans | Cameron of Erracht variant shared with Clan Chalmers | |
| Campbell | Highland clans | Image is the so called "Old Campbell" which is a lighter form of the Black Watch regimental tartan, adopted by Clan Campbell, and shared with clans Bannatyne, Lyon and Paterson | |
| Campbell of Breadalbane | Highland clans | Second set of tartans, shared with Clan Paterson | |
| Campbell of Cawdor | Highland clans | Shared with clans Calder and McCorquodale | |
| Carmichael | Lowland clans | ||
| Carnegie | Lowland clans | ||
| Carruthers | Lowland/Borders clans | ||
| Charteris | Lowland clans | Also known as "Roxburgh", shared with clans Belshes, Riddell, Ainslie, Rutherford and Haig | |
| Chattan | Confederation of highland clans | Based on Mackintosh Chief, shared with clans Davidson, Farquharson, MacBean, MacGillivray, MacIntyre, MacKintosh, MacLean, MacPhail, MacPherson, MacQueen, MacThomas, and Shaw as its members | |
| Chisholm | Highland clans | ||
| Clelland | |||
| Cochrane | Lowland clans | ||
| Colquhoun | Lowland clans | Shared with clans Kirkpatrick and Laing | |
| Colville | Lowland clans | Also known as "Ayrshire District", shared with clans Dalrymple, Whitelaw and Arnott, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Boswell | |
| Cooper | Lowland clans | ||
| Craig | Lowland clans | ||
| Cranstoun | Borders clans | ||
| Crawford | Lowland clans | ||
| Crichton | Lowland clans | Also known as "Edinburgh District", shared with clans Newton, Preston, Spalding, Trotter and Moubray | |
| Crosbie | Lowland clans | ||
| Cumming | Lowland clans | Also known as "Comyn"; shared with Clan Cheyne | |
| Cunningham | Lowland clans | Has additional dancer tartans. | |
| Dalziel | Lowland clans | ||
| Davidson | Highland clans | ||
| Donald | Highland clans | Also known as "MacDonald", shared with branches Dunnyveg and Largie, as well as clans Boyle, Heron, MacColl, Smith, Bissett, Houston and Kelly | |
| Douglas | Lowland clans | Shared with clans Glen, Glendinning, Sandilands, Troup, and Blackstock, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Kirkpatrick | |
| Drummond | Lowland clans | Shared with Clan Grewar | |
| Dunbar | Lowland clans | ||
| Duncan | Lowland clans | Also known as "Leslie of Wardis" | |
| Dundas | Lowland clans | ||
| Dunlop | |||
| Edmonstone | Lowland clans | ||
| Elliot | Borders clans | ||
| Elphinstone | Lowland clans | ||
| Erskine | Lowland clans | ||
| Ewing | Highland clans | ||
| Farquharson | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Christie, second set of tartans shared with Clan Lyon, and third set of tartans shared with Clan Paterson | |
| Fergusson | Highland and Lowland | ||
| Fletcher | Highland clans | ||
| Forbes | Lowland clans | Shared with Clan Bannerman | |
| Forrester | Lowland clans | ||
| Forsyth | Lowland clans | ||
| Fraser | Lowland clans | Shared with clans Abernethy and Tweedie, and second set of tartans shared with clans Grewar and Bissett | |
| Fraser of Lovat | Highland clans | ||
| Galbraith | Lowland clans | Also known as "Mitchell", shared with clans Hunter and Russell | |
| Galloway | Shared with clans Aikenhead, Blane, Clephane, Horsburgh, Newlands, McGeachie, Pringle and McKerrell, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Boyle | ||
| Gardyne | Lowland clans | Also known as "Garden" and "Angus", shared with Clan Maule, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Horsburgh | |
| Gayre | Highland | ||
| Gibbs | Lowland clans | ||
| Gordon | Borders clans | Shared with clans Adam and Brisbane, and second set of tartans shared with clans Laing and Mar | |
| Gow | |||
| Graham | Borders clans | "Graham of Montrose" variant shared with Clan Allardice, "Graham of Menteith" variants shared with Clan Haldane, and both shared with Clan Pitcairn | |
| Grant | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Cairns, second set of tartans shared with Clan Heron, and third set of tartans shared with Clan Bissett | |
| Gray | |||
| Gregor | Highland clans | Also known as "MacGregor"; Shared with clans Grierson, Bain and Strange, and third set of tartans shared with Clan Grewar | |
| Grewar | |||
| Gunn | Highland clans | ||
| Guthrie | |||
| Haig | Lowland clans | ||
| Hamilton | Lowland clans | ||
| Hannay | Lowland clans | ||
| Hay | Lowland clans | Also known as "Leith" | |
| Henderson | Highland and Lowland | ||
| Hepburn | |||
| Home | Borders clans | Shared with clans Wedderburn and Aiton, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Rutherford | |
| Hope | Lowland clans | ||
| Houston | |||
| Hutton | Lowland clans | Also known as "Strathclyde District", shared with clans Roberton and Muirhead | |
| Inglis | |||
| Innes | Highland clans | Second set of tartans shared with Clan Masterton | |
| Irvine | |||
| Jardine | Lowland clans | Shared with Clan Gardyne | |
| Johnstone | Borders clans | Sometimes also rendered Johnson, though this surname often has non-Scottish origins; shared with Clan Marjoribanks | |
| Keith | Highland and Lowland | Shared with clans Falconer and Mercer | |
| Kelly | |||
| Kennedy | Lowland clans | ||
| Kerr | Borders clans | ||
| Kincaid | |||
| Kinnaird | |||
| Kinninmont | Also known as "Nithsdale District" | ||
| Kirkcaldy | |||
| Laing | |||
| Lamont | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Lammie, and fourth set of tartans shared with Clan Paterson | |
| Leask | Highland clans | ||
| Lennox | Lowland clans | Shared with Clan Gartshore | |
| Leslie | Lowland clans | Second set of tartans shared with Clan Abernethy, and third set of tartans shared with Clan Laing | |
| Lindsay | Lowland clans | Shared with clans Auchinleck and Byres | |
| Little | Borders clans | ||
| Lockhart | Lowland clans | ||
| Logan | Highland and Lowland | Shared with Clan MacLennan | |
| Lumsden | Lowland/Borders | ||
| Lyon | Lowland clans | ||
| MacAlister | Highland clans | ||
| MacAulay | Highland clans | Third set of tartans shared with Clan Lyon, and fifth set of tartans shared with Clan Paterson | |
| MacBean | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Binning, and second set of tartans shared with Clan McBain | |
| MacColl | |||
| MacDonald of Clanranald | Highland clans | ||
| MacDonald of Keppoch | Highland clans | ||
| MacDonald of Sleat | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Darroch, and second set of tartans shared with clans MacColl, Houston and Kelly | |
| MacDonnell of Glengarry | Highland clans | ||
| MacDougall | Highland clans | Shared with Clan MacDowall | |
| MacDowall | Lowland clans | ||
| MacDuff | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Spens | |
| MacEwan | Highland clans | ||
| MacFarlane | Highland clans | ||
| Macfie | Highland clans | Also known as "MacPhee". | |
| MacGillivray | Highland clans | ||
| MacInnes | Highland clans | Third set of tartans shared with Clan Masterton | |
| MacIntyre | Highland clans | ||
| MacIver | |||
| MacKay | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Mackie, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Bain | |
| Mackenzie | Highland clans | ||
| Mackinnon | Highland clans | ||
| Mackintosh | Highland clans | Shared with clans Nairn and MacThomas | |
| MacLachlan | Highland clans | ||
| Maclaine of Lochbuie | Highland clans | ||
| MacLaren | Highland clans | Fourth set of tartans shared with Clan Lyon, and sixth set of tartans shared with Clan Paterson | |
| MacLea | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Livingstone | |
| MacLean | Highland clans | Second set of tartans shared with Clan Gillon | |
| MacLellan | Lowland clans | ||
| MacLeod | Highland clans | Also known as "McLeod of Harris", second set of tartans shared with Clan McCorquodale | |
| MacLeod of Assynt | Highland clans | Third set of tartans shared with Clan McCorquodale | |
| MacLeod of Lewis | Highland clans | Fourth set of tartans shared with Clan McCorquodale | |
| MacLeod of Raasay | Highland clans | Fifth set of tartans shared with Clan McCorquodale | |
| MacMillan | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Baxter | |
| Macnab | Highland clans | ||
| Macnaghten | Highland and Lowland | ||
| MacNeacail | Isle of Skye | Also known as "MacNicol"; shared with clans Nicolson and Cunningham | |
| MacNeil | Highland clans | Formally known as "MacNeil of Barra"; has an additional tartan currently not recognized by the current chief as a clan tartan. | |
| MacNeil of Colonsay | Highland clans | ||
| MacPhail | Highland clans | ||
| Macpherson | Highland clans | ||
| MacQuarrie | Highland clans | ||
| Macqueen | Highland clans | Image shows both Macqueen tartan setts. The black-red-yellow is better known while the blue-red-yellow is considered to be an "artifact variant". | |
| Macrae | Highland clans | ||
| MacTavish | Highland clans | Thompson/Thomson/MacTavish - Easily confused with "Ancient MacTavish Red" as they are all but identical. | |
| MacThomas | Highland clans | ||
| Maitland | Lowland clans | ||
| Makgill | Lowland clans | Also known as "MacGill" | |
| Malcolm | Highland and Lowland | Has an additional tartan called "MacCallum" | |
| Mar | Lowland clans | Has an additional tartan known as "Don". | |
| Marjoribanks | Lowland clans | ||
| Matheson | Highland clans | ||
| Maxwell | Borders clans | Shared with clans Adair, Herries, Maxton and Pollock, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Blackstock | |
| McAlpine | Highland clans | ||
| McCulloch | Lowland clans | ||
| McGeachie | |||
| McKerrell | Lowland clans | ||
| Melville | Lowland clans | ||
| Menzies | Highland clans | ||
| Mercer | |||
| Middleton | Lowland clans | ||
| Moffat | Lowland clans | ||
| Moncreiffe | Highland clans | ||
| Montgomery | Lowland clans | ||
| Morrison | Highland and Lowland | ||
| Mouat | |||
| Moubray | Lowland clans | ||
| Muir | Highland clans | Also known as "More"; The California State tartan, seen below, is also based on this pattern. | |
| Muirhead | |||
| Munro | Highland clans | ||
| Murray | Highland clans | ||
| Murray of Atholl | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Fleming, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Spalding | |
| Nairn | |||
| Napier | Lowland clans | ||
| Nesbitt | Borders clans | ||
| Newlands | Lowland clans | ||
| Ochterlony | Lowland clans | ||
| Ogilvy | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Kinnaird | |
| Oliphant | Highland clans | ||
| Paisley | Shared with clans Cathcart, Walkinshaw and Ralston, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Brisbane | ||
| Paterson | Has an additional tartan known as "MacKellar" | ||
| Pitcairn | |||
| Pollock | Lowland clans | ||
| Pringle | Borders clans | ||
| Ralston | Lowland clans | Currently the only Scottish clan to have additional American and Universal tartans. | |
| Ramsay | Lowland clans | ||
| Rattray | Highland clans | ||
| Robertson | Highland clans | Also known as "Donnachaidh/Donnachie" | |
| Rollo | Lowland clans | ||
| Rose | Highland clans | ||
| Ross | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Lockhart, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Gillanders | |
| Rutherford | Lowland/Borders | ||
| Ruthven | Lowland clans | ||
| Scott | Borders clans | ||
| Scrymgeour | Highland clans | ||
| Sempill | Lowland clans | ||
| Seton | Lowland clans | ||
| Shaw | Highland clans | Shared with Clan Schaw | |
| Sinclair | Lowland clans | ||
| Skene | Lowland clans | ||
| Smith | |||
| Somerville | |||
| Stewart/Stuart | Highland and Lowland | Shared with Clan Lyle, and third set of tartans shared with Clan Heron | |
| Stewart of Appin | Highland clans | ||
| Stirling | Lowland clans | Also known as "Bannockburn", second set of tartans shared with Clan Aikenhead | |
| Strachan | Highland clans | ||
| Straiton | Lowland clans | Also known as "Perthshire District", shared with Clan Butter, and second set of tartans shared with clans Arnott, Balfour, Mercer, Maule and Spens | |
| Strange | Lowland clans | ||
| Stuart of Bute | Highland clans | ||
| Sutherland | Highland clans | ||
| Tailyour | |||
| Tait | |||
| Tennant | |||
| Thomson | |||
| Turnbull | Borders clans | ||
| Udny | Also known as "Aberdeen District", shared with Clan Straiton, and second set of tartans shared with Clan Pitblado | ||
| Urquhart | Lowland clans | ||
| Wallace | Lowland clans | Also known as "Wallace Red", and is also notably used on the 3M brand Scotch tape. | |
| Wardlaw | |||
| Watson | Lowland clans | ||
| Weir | Lowland clans | Shared with Clan Hope | |
| Wemyss | Lowland clans | ||
| Wishart | |||
| Wood | Lowland clans | Incorporates the colors of the Duke of Fife and Angus district tartans – areas with which the Woods are historically connected. | |
| Young | Borders clans |
Scottish non-clan family tartans
Tartans in this list are ascribed to specific families or surnames, though not to Scottish clans; they range in date from 21st century to considerably older.| Image | Association | Origin | Notes |
| Burnett | Lowland and Borders | ||
| Cockburn | Lowlands | ||
| Drennan | Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, and Lanarkshire | Registered with STA pre-2002 and SRT in 2002. Designed in 1952. | |
| Durie | Lowlands | ||
| Inchforth | Lothian | Registered with SRT in 2012. A fresh and contemporary tartan design woven and manufactured as an alternative to the Menzies clan tartan for family & corporate purposes. The chosen colours are intended as a nod to Scottish-Irish familial links. | |
| Lauder | Shared with Clan Maitland | ||
| McCandlish | Galloway, and Ayrshire | Registered with STA in 1992 and SRT in 2009. Also exists in green, grey, and arisaid variants. | |
| Oliver | Borders area | ||
| Park | - | ||
| Rainey | Angus, Scotland or County Antrim/County Down | Registered with Scottish Register of Tartans on 15 October 2024. |
Organisational tartans
Tartans in this list are modern ones pertaining to particular commercial and non-profit organisations.| Image | Association | Origin | Country | Notes |
| Burberry | Company design | England | Created in the 1920s, this pattern is known as the "Burberry check". It was originally used as a lining in the company's trench coats. | |
| Clan McDuck | Disney | United States | Created in 1942 for Donald Duck universe/Duck Family features, possible "#1 variant." | |
| Clan DunBroch/Merida | Disney | United States | Created for the 2012 film Brave | |
| Scouting movement | Clan MacLaren | Worldwide | For use with Wood Badge |
Regional tartans
Tartans in these lists were created for particular national and sub-national jurisdictions, most often officially, though with some exceptions.Tartans for Africa
Beginning in 2004, tartans were created for a collection that was given this special name for representation of African countries in a similar manner to Europe, with the oldest being made for Ghana in the same year.Asia
Four tartans were created for Japan once anually and respectively from 2005-2008 to represent the Japanese four seasons, as well as additional tartans following for China, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, India, Kurdistan, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea and Sri Lanka.Ireland
The most traditionally associated tartan worn in Ireland is the plain saffron tartan, however, additional Irish tartans were created to represent Irish surnames, as well as its provinces and counties.United States
The United States of America has tartans for certain states and cities, as well as tartans that represent each branch and select units of the U.S. Armed Forces, in a similar manner to the British government.| Image | Association | Origin | Country | Notes |
| US Air Force Reserve Pipe Band | Strathmore Woollen Company | United States | Adopted by the band in the early 1990s. Although it has no official US Military recognition, it has been widely accepted by US servicemen with Air Force connections. Originally created in 1988 as Lady Jane of St Cirus. A variation of this is named US Forces Thurso. |