Tartan of the Month - May. What do you see?

[figheadair]

I'll write this piece up fully for the end of the month but suffice to say at this point that this is the oldest surviving piece of military tartan and as far as I know, the only extant piece of regimental tartan pre-c1790.

[figheadair]

Here's my article on the piece in which I come to a different conclusion about the setting of the original - http://www.scottishtartans.co.uk/64t...ers_Tartan.pdf

Thoughts, comments?

[MacBean]

Back to Lord Loudoun, are we? I did have a few letters back and forth with Ruari, for which I thank you. I wonder if the MacKintosh was under compulsion to raise troops for Loudon.

That's a lovely old piece of tartan; a real treasure. Thanks for letting us see it.