MACQUEEN (MODERN) MODERN 'The Scottish Gael'

'The Scottish Gael'

Note: This tartan is on a weaving schedule due to be completed end of January 2024

taken from a silk swatch in Patterson's pattern book

Of the better known tartans

and which was later introduced to the Highlands and formed the basis of many of the estate checks

MACQUEEN (MODERN) MODERN 'The Scottish Gael'Scottish Tartan Society entry: The tartan of the Clan Revan, so called after Revan MacMulmor MacAngus MacQueen, who led kinsmen of the MacDonald bride for the 10th Chief of the Mackintoshes, to take protection from Clan Chattan. The sett was unnamed, as far as we know, before publication in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842), but this source is unreliable. It has much in common with the Fraser and the Gunn tartans, both of which have four bold stripes,