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24 April 2024

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Tartan Details - MacDonald of The Isles

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STA ref:	1366
STWR ref:	1366
Designer:	Sobieski Stewarts, The
Tartan date:	01/01/1842
Registration date:	This tartan was recorded prior to the launch of The Scottish Register of Tartans.
Category:	Clan/Family
Restrictions:
Registration notes:	Green lightened to show sett. Scottish Tartans Society notes: The design first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum and is different from earlier setts attributed to the Lord of the Isles or to any of the Clan Donald branches. It is not generally regarded as a clan tartan. The Sobieski Stuart brothers who published the Vestiarium claimed to be the heirs to a manuscript once in the hands of Prince Charles Edward Stuart himself but the original was never produced for public examination. The book appears to be a curious mixture of fact and fiction in keeping with the romantic ideology of the time. Lochcarron swatch.

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