Another old tartan

[Domehead]

In this particular case, I'm having real difficulty in finding any justification for the suffix 'of Alytre'.

Andersons, now Kinloch Andersons, don't know anything about naming of the silk specimen they had, a piece of which is now in the STA Collection. It looks to be a c1930-40 sample and was almost certainly woven as a 'special', presumably for a Fraser but whether Andersons called it by that name because the customer did or whether it was already being sold as such is unclear. I favour the former but have been unable to track down who/which family might have ordered it. A recent research discovery means that it's now quite clear to me that the current name of this sett is wrong.

1. Does the position that this sett is "misnamed" derive from legal conventions surrounding male land-holders and "Name-of-Place" v. Female's inaccess to such designation or status, you mentioned before?

2. If so, then why does such an idea bear anything on the sett, when the sett itself bears only little resemblance (tacit colourway) to any Comyn, Cumming setts (or modern associated Glen Orchy, Buchan) before - to include the Logan tabulation, which is distinctly unique?

3. In fact, under the theory of regional affect, this sett bears indisputable hallmarks of the traditional West Highland Group (MacKintosh, MacKintyre, Glen Orchy C18th): this, considering your research on the Appin/Lorne motif, as well as a "double" Robertson-esque feel. Isn't it likely, considering your particular theory re: the "Gentile Loch Eil" naming, Andersons suffixed "Fraser" as a commercial epithet and nothing more?

I appreciate anything you have to teach. Thank you again for your considerable time and energy in these matters. It helps me more than I could ever acknowledge.

Slainte Mhath
Ryan M. Liddell