Tartan or tablecloth?

[ratspike]

My wife and I make pretty regular trips to this funky little shop in Portland called Scrap, sort of a craft thrift store. You never know what you're going to find. There isn't often any fabric worth getting excited about, but yesterday I found this:


It's wool, medium weight I guess, and just shy of 4 double width yards. Anyone recognize it as being a proper tartan or does it belong to clan MacTablecloth? Either way it'll be a nifty looking kilt, and if it has a name it saves me from having to make something up when I'm asked about it. People always seem to disappointed to be told "nope, sorry, just a fashion plaid".

[figheadair]

It's a simplified Murray. There's a sample in the Cockburn Collection of 1810 named Murray Mansfield although I doubt that this modern piece was woven as that but rather a simple Murray/42nd variant that the weaver may or may not have given a trade name.

[MacRobert's Reply]

Your encyclopedic knowledge of tartans is so impressive figheadair

[ratspike]

Impressive indeed! Thank you very much for the info.

[RockyR]

I'd call it a simplified version of MacKinlay (without the guards on the reds) which many mills weaving for "fashion purposes" do:

http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar....aspx?ref=2540