New Kilt - Ideas Requested

[jdtenney]

Gents,

I'm looking for a new kilt, but I need some ideas on which tartan to go for next. I currently have a kilt in 13 oz Strathmore in the MacDonald of the Isles Hunting Ancient tartan. Looking for something that is either predominantly blue or red. I do like the MacDonald of the Isles Hunting Weathered, as the main colors are what looks to be Grey/Brown.

Any Ideas??

Thanks Gents..

[M. A. C. Newsome]

If you are a MacDonald and looking for a predominantly red tartan, why not MacDonald of the Isles red?


Or the similar MacDonald of Sleat?


For a blue tartan, there is a blue version of the MacDonald Lord of the Isles that Strathmore weaves (in a light weight cloth only, you'd have to have it woven in a heavy weight).

[OC Richard]

If you are a MacDonald and looking for a predominantly red tartan, why not MacDonald of the Isles red?


Or the similar MacDonald of Sleat?

Both are derived from this portrait of the MacDonald children. The upper tartan Matt posted is a copy of the tartan of the jacket worn by the boy on the left.

The lower tartan Matt posted is a defective copy of the first.



In The Setts of the Scottish Tartans Donald C Stewart says:

"Early last century (the early 19th century) there was manufactured, and given distinguished patronage, a tartan called by the Smiths MacDonald of Sleat, Lord of the Isles. In Old and Rare Scottish Tartans DW Stewart drew attention to the fact that this was a defective rendering of the tartan shown in a painting (The MacDonald Children) at Armadale Castle. In The Costume of the Clans, by the brothers John Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart (1845) there is a representation of the figures from that painting; not only was the black line omitted, but the narrower stripes are rendered in blue instead of green."

Lord of the Isles Hunting is derived from another Armadale Castle painting.

The green and blue MacDonald of the Isles is from the Vestiarium Scoticum (the famous forgery).

The normal MacDonald tartan, MacDonell of Keppoch, and MacDonald of Staffa and Boisdale and Kingsburgh all either exist in early collections or are based on 18th century relics.

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

[xman]

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

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

[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)."

[RockyR]

Don't forget MacDonald of Keppoch:




MacDonad of Kingsburg:



MacDonald of Staffa:




MacDonald Glennadale:




MacDonald of Glencoe:




MacDonald of Boisdale:




MacDonald of Ardnamurchan:

[Riverkilt]

Here are my Macdonald tartan kilts. Hope its helpful.

Macdonald of the Isles Weathered Hunting Lochcarron 16 ounce Strome sewn up by Kathy Lare





Macdonald of Kingsburgh 16 ounce Dalgliesh, Kathy Lare





And, Macdonald Lord of the Isles 11ounce Lochcarron by Kathy Lare
When I ordered it 11oz was the only weight available and I wanted it. A fine kilt no less.

[Andy Proffitt]

A second for the Keppoch or the Kingsburgh, I've always loved those two.

[L. Ramsay]

Heh heh, there sure are a lot of you MacDonalds. I get reminded of that one every time I scroll down a listing of tartans.

Looks like you're set with variety for the rest of your days.

[xman]

Heh heh, there sure are a lot of you MacDonalds.

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