February - Tartan of the Month

[piperdbh]

One of the MacMillans?

[xman]

Although it reminds me of the Buchanan and MacMillan Old tartans I can't help looking at it and wondering if the yellow wasn't once green and the salmon pink wasn't once red. I see the herringbone selvedge. I like it. It looks like it has been carefully hemmed in the last picture and a loop sewn in at one of the corners. Makes me think it wants a hook on an adjacent corner.

[figheadair]

One of the MacMillans?

Hope

Although it reminds me of the Buchanan and MacMillan Old tartans I can't help looking at it and wondering if the yellow wasn't once green and the salmon pink wasn't once red. I see the herringbone selvedge. I like it. It looks like it has been carefully hemmed in the last picture and a loop sewn in at one of the corners. Makes me think it wants a hook on an adjacent corner.

Yellow? X I think your monitor needs adjusting. Loop, what loop?

[xman]

Yellow? X I think your monitor needs adjusting.

I've always believed tennis balls are yellow and everybody insists they're green. Probably not my monitor. Probably my brain.

Loop, what loop?

There's something sewn into the top left corner of the last picture.

[Hothir Ethelnor]

I've always believed tennis balls are yellow and everybody insists they're green. Probably not my monitor. Probably my brain.


There's something sewn into the top left corner of the last picture.

And that "loop" is embroidered initials. it appears to be I C or L C perhaps.

[figheadair]

And that "loop" is embroidered initials. it appears to be I C or L C perhaps.

It's I C but we have no idea to whom that referred.

[Morris at Heathfield]

It has similarities to the Fraser and Robertson tartans. It's very close to the Grant of Edinchat tartan except for the proportion of red to blue & green. The closest match appears to be a formerly unnamed tartan from Glen Buchet (Glenbuchat?) ca. 1750. The specimen is hard tartan, 28 x 48 inches. The tartan was adopted by the Countess of Mar and recorded in the Lyon Court Book in 1992, being given the name "Red Mar".

I didn't know you could place restrictions on an old tartan you didn't design or commission.

[davidlpope]

The closest match appears to be a formerly unnamed tartan from Glen Buchet (Glenbuchat?) ca. 1750. The specimen is hard tartan, 28 x 48 inches. The tartan was adopted by the Countess of Mar and recorded in the Lyon Court Book in 1992, being given the name "Red Mar".

Good Eyes! These colors remind me of the tartan worn by the 78th Fraser Highlander reenactors- the green is lime, the blue navy, and the red orange.

I didn't know you could place restrictions on an old tartan you didn't design or commission.

I'm not sure what you mean by placing restrictions, but it has been common practice in the past for "Chiefs of the Name" to adopt existing tartans as their own. Many of the WOB trade setts were adopted by clans (Matt reminded me of the interesting story of the MacPherson tartan this past weekend) when it became fashionable for each clan to have a tartan. This practice still continues: Duncan Paisley of Westerlea adopted the existing Paisley district tartan for his followers when he was confirmed as chief of the name; Mark Harden of Cowdenknowes adopted WOB unnamed tartan #1 as the "Harden" tartan a few years ago when he assumed the barony.

David

[figheadair]

It has similarities to the Fraser and Robertson tartans. It's very close to the Grant of Edinchat tartan except for the proportion of red to blue & green. The closest match appears to be a formerly unnamed tartan from Glen Buchet (Glenbuchat?) ca. 1750. The specimen is hard tartan, 28 x 48 inches. The tartan was adopted by the Countess of Mar and recorded in the Lyon Court Book in 1992, being given the name "Red Mar".

I didn't know you could place restrictions on an old tartan you didn't design or commission.

Well found. It is the original piece from Glenbuchat. Now, what the cloth tell you?