MacArthur (1815) (Clan) Tartan
- Name of Tartan:
- MacArthur (1815) (Clan)
- ITI Number:
- 959
- Category:
- Clan/Family
- Designer / Source:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1815
- Slog:
- GYG:KGK
- Colour Sequence:
- KGKGTGTGKG
- Thread Count:
- K30 G4 K8 G36 YT4 G36 YT4 G36 K8 G4
- Notes:
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Found in Highland Society of London records around 1990 and attended by much publicity about an "ancient" sett having been discovered, but "scholars" believed the error resulted from misreading the thread count. James MacArthur Moir of Milton ( now Chief of the Clan [2005] ) has a portrait C.1860 showing this sett. It’s claimed that that this double yellow-lined sett, far from being an error, is in fact the original – a sample of which is said to be in the Highland Society of London Collection. Thus the modern single-lined version from Vestiarium Scoticum is more likley to be the erroneous version of the 1815 sett. The Chief has decreed that both setts are regarded as genuine MacArthurs although the single-lined version is still that promoted by the weavers. Info from www.clannarthur.com & members at Jan Trade Fair, Glasgow 2005.
