MACLEAN OF DUART (WEATHERED alt.) IRISH COUNTY was in use before 1745

was in use before 1745 but when tartan was proscribed the sett seemed to have been lost until a piece was discovered in Kintyre and placed in the Museum of Antiquities (now incorporated into the National Museum of Scotland in Chambers St

A tartan very similar to this can be seen in a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn of Niel Gow (1717-1807) the famous Perthshire fiddler (see http://www

Instigated and registered by Mrs Rosemary Nicolson Samios in 1992

now living in Skye

Also recorded in James Logan 'The Scottish Gael' 1831

MACLEAN OF DUART (WEATHERED alt.) IRISH COUNTY was in use before 1745The central stripe in this version is not blue, but more of a 'drab' colour. In this way it is redolent of the MacLean (Rare) Wilsons of Bannockburn pattern (c1819). It also has a smaller sett than the other MacLean (Weathered) pattern featured here.