MACKAY BLUE [MORGAN] (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'F' who held the hereditary office

who held the hereditary office of Great Marischal of Scotland

the black line was dropped - by mistake or design - in the Vestiarium Scoticum of 1842

Sir Jean Dunbar of Mochrum

The sett for this once powerful Lowland family first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum

The verdant banks of the famous Helmsdale Salmon River inspires this fascinating blend of complimentary greens

MACKAY BLUE [MORGAN] (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'F' who held the hereditary officeOften called the Blue MacKay or Morgan. The design comes from the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842). The authors, the Sobieski Stuart brothers, enjoyed a popular following among the Scottish gentry in the early Victorian era, and in the spirit of the times, added mystery, romance and some spurious historical documentation to the subject of tartan. Of the better known tartans, the book offers some minor variation, but in other cases it provides the only