Smart business attire?

[castledangerous]

Anyone know the tartan that Maclean of Dochgarroch is wearing? I don't find it among Maclean tartans

[JSFMACLJR]

Anyone know the tartan that Maclean of Dochgarroch is wearing? I don't find it among Maclean tartans

It is the MacLean of Duart Hunting tartan.

Kind regards,
Sandford MacLean

[castledangerous]

It is the MacLean of Duart Hunting tartan.

Kind regards,
Sandford MacLean

Really? The woman in front of him is wearing MacLean of Duart Hunting, which is very green. You have a link that identifies his as a variation of some
kind?

I'm talking about the olive drab/brown tartan

Thanks

[JSFMACLJR]

It's quite obviously the same pattern...the colour is just different. Tartan can be woven in any number of ways. Dochgarroch's kilt is just a very weathered cloth. My grandfather had a suit of MacLean hunting tartan in which the background was brown, sort of an "army brown." It was very similar to Lochcarron's MacLean Hunting Tartan Weathered shown here:http://www.lochcarron.com/tartanstro...n_hunting.html

I've envied Dochgarroch's kilt for quite some time, actually!


Sandford MacLean

[castledangerous]

I see the obvious similarities, but the white stripes seem much wider...

[ThistleDown]

It's quite obviously the same pattern...the colour is just different. Tartan can be woven in any number of ways. Dochgarroch's kilt is just a very weathered cloth. My grandfather had a suit of MacLean hunting tartan in which the background was brown, sort of an "army brown." It was very similar to Lochcarron's MacLean Hunting Tartan Weathered shown here:http://www.lochcarron.com/tartanstro...n_hunting.html

The Dochgarroch family, the Macleans of the North (Clan Tearlach) has long used the so-called "hunting" Maclean first recorded in the second decade of the 19C. According to the late Jamie Scarlett, the origins are to be found in some charters and other documents dated between 1587 and 1630 related to the lands of Norraboll on Islay. Dochgarroch wears a reproduced tartan in which the black has turned brown, a common characteristic of black dyes in the early mass-production era.