Jacobite era tartans still in use today

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What about Drummond of Perth? How far back does that design go?

Thanks for the list. It's pretty cool.

A few of those appear in 18th century portraits which are familiar to me. It would be nice to have the tartans sorted by source

1) taken from a portrait painted prior to 1746

2) taken from a piece of surviving cloth known to date to before 1746

3) ?? what other specific sources of tartan designs exist? Pre-1746 thread counts written down by a weaver?

Richard, the Drummond of Perth was a Wilsons' pattern and cannot be dated earlier than c1775; see my paper of the Stewart of Fingask for more info.

I have the list in Excel which means that it is a simple task to reank them according to your 1 and 2 but I would broaden 1 to c1765 which would include the early Proscription period but before Wilsons got going.

Before c1775 there are no other sources of tartan records other than those in groups 1 and 2. There are certainly no known weaver's records until Wilsons' from the latye 1700s.