MACKINLAY (ANCIENT) DRESS Lord Darnley

Lord Darnley

the occupants of a shieling in which some of them lodged

one year after the proscription of Highland dress

The possibility therefore arises that the Culloden - which was an unknown tartan found at Culloden - might have been an early form of MacHardy

Stewart's 'Setts of the Scottish Tartans' quadrupled

MACKINLAY (ANCIENT) DRESS Lord DarnleyThe MacKinlay tartan could be described in tartan parlance as Black Watch with red. It is similar to the early military setts produced by Wilson's of Bannockburn for the MacKenzies, the MacLeods and the Gordons, but there is no mention in Wilson's comprehensive pattern books of a MacKinlay tartan. There are, however, grounds for comparison with the Farquharson, as MacKinlays are named in that clan. To further confuse the issue the sett is identical to