LOCHABER (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre Scottish Tartans Society notes: A

Scottish Tartans Society notes: A powerful Border Clan who pursued a deadly feud with the Maxwells

14th Earl of Rothes who died in 1841

A piece of the MacBean tartan went to the moon and back in Apollo XII in Nov

From W & A K Johnston's 1906 publication which states that it was taken from a piece of tartan dyed and woven by the wife of Alexander XVI of Keppoch who was killed at Culloden

The pattern was devised from an old MacDonald tartan that is shown in a painting at Armadale Castle

LOCHABER (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre Scottish Tartans Society notes: AThought to have been created by Wilsons of Bannockburn. The origin of this tartan is uncertain and it is generally accepted as a district tartan. It is known to have existed as early as 1797. One of the original specimens of this tartan can be found in the West Highland Museum in Fort William. Scottish Tartans Society notes add that it was possibly a Fencibles tartan. Fencibles were a kind of Home Guard formed at the time of the Napoleonic Invasion