MACLACHLAN OLD (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre from an existing design

from an existing design

The MacAlister tartan was certified by the chief in 1845

it has always been known by the 'Trade' as such

differs only in the addition of a white stripe between the narrow green lines

but this is taken to be an error on the part of General Cockburn at a time when the establishment of clan names for tartan was in its infancy

MACLACHLAN OLD (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre from an existing designFrom the book: Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893). This contains a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity. Many of the illustrated tartans owe their present day popularity to the publication of this work. The author was D. W. Stewart.