MACLEAN OF DUART HUNTING (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre 340g 150cm wide 100% Pure

340g   150cm wide   100% Pure Wool

Gow is the Gaelic form of Smith meaning metal worker or armourer

The sett for this once powerful Lowland family first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum

Scottish Tartan Society notes say it is interesting to note that much of the forged sixteenth century manuscript on which the Vestiarium Scoticum was based was supposedly transcribed by Sir Richard Urquhart in 1721

MACLEAN OF DUART HUNTING (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre 340g 150cm wide 100% PureScottish Tartan Society notes: Perhaps dating back as far as 1587 but there is some debate as to the validity of the historical evidence. A charter granted to Hector MacLean, Heir of Duart, in the lands of Islay, the feu duty to be payable in the form of 60 ells cloth of white, black and green colours. This may well account for the colours, the proportions possibly being the invention of the early Tartan documenters, the Sobieski Stuarts. In his book,