Two MacPherson tartans

[M. A. C. Newsome]

A couple of completed kilts ready to ship out to a MacPherson customer. One is MacPherson Dress and the other is in the Crubin Plaid, Wilsons' colors. Both are four yard box pleated kilts.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Extreme close-up showing the stitching detail of one of the pleats in the Dress MacPherson.

[Father Bill]

Much double cool!

[auld argonian]

Just did a quick google search to find a listing of the Wilson's colors but came up with very little....is there any good site that shows all of the Wilson's versions of tartans?

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AA

[creagdhubh]

Well done, Matt!

Absolutely beautiful! Now, that's how I like seeing the Macpherson dress tartan! These are the same precise colours in which 'Old Cluny' (Ewen Macpherson of Cluny, 21st Chief of the Clan Macpherson) wore in the latter part of the 19th-century. The tartan can also be seen on Lachlan Macpherson of Strathmashie and Catlodge, 'Lachlan Mor,' Champion of Scotland, in Kenneth MacLeay's portrait, as well as in the portrait of Lachlan Macpherson of Glentruim, Laird of Gelntruim, and Ewen Henry Davidson Macpherson of Cluny, 22nd Chief of the Clan Macpherson and 'Old Cluny's' son. The vast majority of Macphersons wear the dress tartan in the colours in which William Anderson and Sons began selling, with the double purple/magenta lines. I absolutely love seeing the double red in this particular version. The fellow Macpherson cousin, whom commissioned these two beautiful kilts, knows exactly what he's doing!

Ewen Henry Davidson Macpherson of Cluny


Lachlan Macpherson of Strathmashie and Catlodge (left)


Lachlan Macpherson of Glentruim


I must have both of these tartans!

Cheers,

[creagdhubh]

Here's an example of the two different colour schemes next to one another. On the left you have several Macphersons wearing the dress tartan (at the annual Clan Macpherson Gathering Ball at the Duke of Gordon Hotel in Kingussie, Inverness-shire, Scotland) with the double purple/magenta lines, and to reiterate, is the sett most widely seen. On the right is Jamie Brodie Macpherson, the present Chief's son and next in line to be Chief of the Clan Macpherson by tanistry. Jamie can be seen wearing the dress tartan with the double red (scarlet) lines, which is less commonly seen. The Macpherson dress tartan is also a fantastic sett to enlarge, as can be best observed in the MacLeay portrait above.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Just did a quick google search to find a listing of the Wilson's colors but came up with very little....is there any good site that shows all of the Wilson's versions of tartans?

Best

AA

All tartans in the Wilsons' colors? No.

But here are some photos of tartans I have had woven in this color scheme in the past.
https://plus.google.com/photos/10171...22760825771201

[mookien]

Just did a quick google search to find a listing of the Wilson's colors but came up with very little....is there any good site that shows all of the Wilson's versions of tartans? ...

AA: You might also check out the following web pages, if you haven't already ...

http://albanach.org/articles.html?ht...rg/colors.html

http://www.newhousehighland.com/tartans.html

John

[Tartan Tess]

Beautiful work Matt!

[Liam]

Both look great!