MACDONALD OF THE ISLES HUNTING (MODERN alt.) - Tartans beginning with 'G' DC Stewart suggested that this

DC Stewart suggested that this might have been the version worn by the Scottish tenor Kenneth MacKellar who was very popular in the 1960s and 70s

"The exact origins are unknown

it must be one of the earliest known genuine Lowland tartans

A 1937 pattern book calls this 'Lady MacDonald

Prince Chalres was said to have been given a plaid in this tartan which he left at Moy Hall in his rushed escape from there

MACDONALD OF THE ISLES HUNTING (MODERN alt.) - Tartans beginning with 'G' DC Stewart suggested that thisScottish Tartans Society notes: The design first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum and is different from earlier setts attributed to the Lord of the Isles or to any of the Clan Donald branches. It is not generally regarded as a clan tartan. The Sobieski Stuart brothers who published the Vestiarium claimed to be the heirs to a manuscript once in the hands of Prince Charles Edward Stuart himself but the original was never produced for public