MACLACHLAN OLD (MODERN) Choose:By the metre who had died in 1595

who had died in 1595

Ramsay of Dalhousie was created Earl of Dalhousie in 1633

but in the Highlands is known as "Breacan nan Cleirach" - the tartan of the Clergy

Weaver Gerald Reilly's rationale was: "During my lifetime in the weaving trade

which was burned down by the Maxwells in 1593

MACLACHLAN OLD (MODERN) Choose:By the metre who had died in 1595From 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.