MACRAE OF CONCHRA (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'M' Soft to touch - not

Soft to touch - not at all scratchy or stiff

Despite that

which is unusual as the precise shade of tartan colours is normally left to the discretion of the weaver

Note: Currently on a weaving schedule (finishes mid-December 2023)

The MacNeils claim descent from Niall

MACRAE OF CONCHRA (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'M' Soft to touch - notMajor John MacRae Gilstrap of Otter Ferry furnished the following in 1904 re this tartan. "When my great great grandfather, John MacRae of Conchra, Lochalsh, was on his way to Sherrifmuir from Kintail, some of his followers being without stockings, the occupants of a shieling in which some of them lodged, spent the night in cutting out stockings for them from a web of cloth which they had in the place. A piece of this web was in the possession of my