MACDONALD OF SLEAT (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'B' Stewart's 'Setts of the Scottish

Stewart's 'Setts of the Scottish Tartans' quadrupled

and Russell

There was thought of calling it the 'Ayr Tartan' but that was discarded in favour of the present name which more aptly celebrated the bicentenary of the poet's birth

In June 1959 the Burns Federation accepted the design with the condition that all goods should be made in Scotland

before publication in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842)

MACDONALD OF SLEAT (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'B' Stewart's 'Setts of the ScottishAlso Middleton Middleton of Kinfauns. Scottish Tartan Society notes: The MacDonald of Sleat tartan was manufactured in the 18th century and called MacDonald of Sleat, Lord of the Isles. The pattern was devised from an old MacDonald tartan that is shown in a painting at Armadale Castle, but it appears that the reconstruction differs somewhat from the original. Whether this was intended or simply a mistake is entirely open to conjecture but it would not