URQUHART (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre of special interest or antiquity

of special interest or antiquity

1969 with Cdr Alan L Bean

It is illustrated by Smibert and the Smith brothers (both works published in 1850)

this tartan is regarded as being solely for Clan Hunter

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

URQUHART (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre of special interest or antiquityFirst 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.