MACDONALD DRESS (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre D C Dalgliesh also exhibits

D C Dalgliesh also exhibits this sett as "Drennan"

but there is no mention in Wilson's comprehensive pattern books of a MacKinlay tartan

From the 1750 portrait of the MacDonald Boys by Jeramiah in Armadale Castle on the Isle of Skye

The designer is unknown and the date is possibly pre 1850

and MacVeans are all forms of the same name possibly from the same origin as the early Scottish King

MACDONALD DRESS (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre D C Dalgliesh also exhibitsIn 1815, members of the Highland Society of London resolved to request each of the Highland chiefs to provide a sample of their clan tartan. The swatches were to be signed and sealed in the chief's own hand. This sett is one of those delivered to the Society between 1815 and 1822.