Originally Posted by
gilmore
This scenario just isn't true, certainly not always. At one point clan chiefs and chieftans were asked to provide samples of their tartan(s) for a collection being assembled by a London-based society, whose name and subsequent publication I do not recall of the top of my head. Many of the chiefs then took it upon themselves to research their tartan(s) and provide examples as authentic as they could.
Several of the tartans predate the 1745 uprising and subsequent proscription, such as Campbell and the red Morrison.
As always, our Matt has written extensively on this point, and I direct the gentle readers to this detailed essay:
http://albanach.org/sources.htm
Best regards,
Jake (whose clan tartan was a pattern ordered to clothe plantation workers in the West Indies)
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