MACLEAN OF DUART (WEATHERED alt.) IRISH COUNTY This is the most popular

This is the most popular Scott tartan in modern times

Instigated and registered by Mrs Rosemary Nicolson Samios in 1992

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

Also recorded in James Logan 'The Scottish Gael' 1831

Scottish Tartans Society records: said to have been worn by George

MACLEAN OF DUART (WEATHERED alt.) IRISH COUNTY This is the most popularThe 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.