URQUHART (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre The pattern retains the unusual

The pattern retains the unusual purple - yellow - orange box check of the original blanket and changes only the ground colour to the traditional West Coast greens and blues

Famous for it's isolation and wild

this tartan is regarded as being solely for Clan Hunter

James Renwick was the last man officially executed (1688) in Scotland for religious principles

As this swatch is in Ancient colours

URQUHART (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre The pattern retains the unusualFirst recorded in the 1810 Cockburn Collection. This is the Urquhart of Urquhart tartan. The sett also appears in the work of W and A Smith (1850) who claim that their sample was collected in the Highlands by George Hunter, the Army clothier prior to 1822.