MACDONALD OF THE ISLES HUNTING (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'T' The colours in the tartan

The colours in the tartan represent the colours of the surrounding area: shades of grey for the basalt columns

Gow is Gaelic for Smith meaning blacksmith

This sett is thought to derive from the 1819 Wilsons of Bannockburn pattern

Scottish Tartan Society entry: The tartan of the Clan Revan

called a 'Gathering

MACDONALD OF THE ISLES HUNTING (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'T' The colours in the tartanScottish Tartans Society notes: The design first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum and is different from earlier setts attributed to the Lord of the Isles or to any of the Clan Donald branches. It is not generally regarded as a clan tartan. The Sobieski Stuart brothers who published the Vestiarium claimed to be the heirs to a manuscript once in the hands of Prince Charles Edward Stuart himself but the original was never produced for public