MACKAY (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Based on MacDougall

Based on MacDougall

are unreliable

The Scottish Tartans Society notes for this tartan attribute the design to the 'Onich Grocer' with no further explanation

the first chief of the MacLeans of Duart

This is the correct version of the asymmetrical Malcolm as shown by the woven sample in W and A Smith's 1850 publication 'The Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'

MACKAY (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Based on MacDougallThe pattern shows a marked similarity to the Gunn tartan in all but colour, suggesting a territorial origin for both. Recently historians of Scottish dress have tended to stress the geographical sources, rather than the clan associations of the earliest Highland tartans. A sample was signed and sealed by the Chief for Highland Society of London in 1816. The sett is known as the 'Green' Mackay.