Strathspey tartan -a misnomer

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Here's the original specimen of the so called Strathspey tartan.


Taken from the back of a Strathspey Fencibles waistcoat, this is a piece of old plaiding and not issue cloth. The identity of the owner is unknown but he was presumably a Grant or some such from the Strathspey/Rothiemurchus area. The piece will be the subject of a future paper but at this stage it's reasonable to suggest that the design should be more correctly called an Unnamed 18th century tartan from Strathspey.