MACLACHLAN OLD (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre it has always been known

it has always been known by the 'Trade' as such

MacNeil tartans appear in pattern books produced by William Wilson & Sons of Bannockburn since the early nineteenth century

The sett is similar to Stewart of Athol

from an existing design

who led kinsmen of the MacDonald bride for the 10th Chief of the Mackintoshes

MACLACHLAN OLD (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre it has always been knownFrom the book: Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893). This contains a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity. Many of the illustrated tartans owe their present day popularity to the publication of this work. The author was D. W. Stewart.