Weathered Tartans

[OC Richard]

I'd be happy to be proved wrong but this is just more marketing nonsense in my opinion. Where is this piece, what made it a MacDonald tartan, who decided that the piece of cloth was certainly 200 years old? No museum or academic of the time examined this tartan so the whole claim needs to be regarded with extreme caution.

I agree with your assessment; that Dalgliesh pamphlet should be taken with extreme caution, or as they say here



I scanned the pamphlet, it's just the cover and two inside pages.

As you can see it's implying that the pre-proscription colours and weaving techniques would have been lost if not for this precious fragment (paragraphs 7 and 8). Note that Dalgliesh had the fragment on loan. The owner isn't mentioned.