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21st October 08, 10:25 AM
#1
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
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21st October 08, 10:38 AM
#2
I see the obvious similarities, but the white stripes seem much wider...
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22nd October 08, 11:40 PM
#3
 Originally Posted by 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
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.
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