MACKAY BLUE [MORGAN] (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'F' Sir Jean Dunbar of Mochrum

Sir Jean Dunbar of Mochrum

Wilson called the pattern No

This tartan was originally supplied by William Wilson and Sons of Bannockburn to a Mr Kidd who used it to clothe the slaves on his West Indian plantation

who held the hereditary office of Great Marischal of Scotland

a well known tartan designer and collector

MACKAY BLUE [MORGAN] (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'F' Sir Jean Dunbar of MochrumOften called the Blue MacKay or Morgan. The design comes from the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842). The authors, the Sobieski Stuart brothers, enjoyed a popular following among the Scottish gentry in the early Victorian era, and in the spirit of the times, added mystery, romance and some spurious historical documentation to the subject of tartan. Of the better known tartans, the book offers some minor variation, but in other cases it provides the only