New Kilt - Ideas Requested

[BoldHighlander]

Terry,
Thanks, that's all I need another handsome tartan!! Who is producing it?

By our own Figheadair a.k.a. Peter MacDonald.

[davidlpope]

By our own Figheadair a.k.a. Peter MacDonald.

Do you know if this tartan was handwoven by Peter, or did dalgliesh weave it?

David

[Riverkilt]

Hey jd - I have TEN kilts sewn up by Kathy - but that speaks more to my addiction and her tolerance...

You could also run up to the Flagstaff Games on July 17-18

http://www.nachs.info/festival.shtml

There's usually at least one vendor who has all their swatch books in the tent.

[xman]

Just in case anybody wondered where all these MacDonald tartans came from...

Well what about Glengarry and Clanranald, or Glencoe for that matter?

[BoldHighlander]

Do you know if this tartan was handwoven by Peter, or did dalgliesh weave it?

David

I maybe wrong, but my understanding is that Peter handwove it.

[OC Richard]

Well what about Glengarry and Clanranald, or Glencoe for that matter?

The MacDonalds of Glencoe, Glenadale, and Ardnamurchan don't appear in The Setts Of The Scottish Tartans, and thus were evidently unknown to the author when he wrote in 1950, or when he revised his book in 1974.

About Clanranald he says:

"There is general agreement in naming the dark tartan comprehensively known as Clan MacDonald (the normal sett with a green/blue/black ground and number of red lines); this was the only MacDonald sett given by Logan. But when we come to the Glengarry and Clanranald divisions of the Clan there is some confusion. The Clan tartan, with the addition of one white line, is now usually styled MacDonnell of Glengarry. A similar pattern, with two fine red lines removed, first appeard in the Vestiarium Scoticum. It was there named Clanranald, and we have now adpted this name in prefernce to that of Glengarry used in our first edition. The latter name we consider to be a misnomer on the part of the Smiths, resulting from their specimen having been supplied by a Miss MacDonnell of Glengarry, who seems not to have noticed the alteration...
Then there is the design in which the Clan MacDonald has the additon of two white lines; the Smiths, followed by James Grant, name this the Clanranald; it seems to be the design used by McIan for the kilt of the figure of a MacDonald of Glencoe. A further example is the Glengarry (a red tartan)."

[Good Egg]

How about a solid red kilt. I'd go for a red/brown rather than scarlet but it would be striking.

[GG]

What about MacGregor Red Modern?



Greg
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