URQUHART [BROAD RED STRIPE] (MODERN) Choose:By the metre this swatch is the approved

this swatch is the approved shade

Lord of the Isles

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 examination

That right was granted to Alexander MacDonald of MacDonald whose son Godfrey is now the 8th Chief

URQUHART [BROAD RED STRIPE] (MODERN) Choose:By the metre this swatch is the approvedFirst recorded in the 1810 Cockburn Collection. This is the Urquhart of Urquhart tartan. The sett also appears in the work of W and A Smith (1850) who claim that their sample was collected in the Highlands by George Hunter, the Army clothier prior to 1822.