MACDOUGALL (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre was in use before 1745

was in use before 1745 but when tartan was proscribed the sett seemed to have been lost until a piece was discovered in Kintyre and placed in the Museum of Antiquities (now incorporated into the National Museum of Scotland in Chambers St

The name Lindsay first appeared in the Borders of Scotland in the 12th century

and are independent of other families of that name

It is illustrated by Smibert and the Smith brothers (both works published in 1850)

Scottish Tartan Society entry: The tartan of the Clan Revan

MACDOUGALL (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre was in use before 1745It is difficult to choose one MacDougall sett to be the 'Usual modern version'. This complex tartan has many variations and not all manufacturers hold the same views. This sett is thought to derive from the 1819 Wilsons of Bannockburn pattern.