LOCHABER (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre later known as 'Old Bruce'

later known as 'Old Bruce'

Stewart (1893) pointed out that the use of so much blue

or who wish to wear a tartan different from their own

a book produced between 1829-1842

This is an alternative version of the 'Modern'

LOCHABER (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre later known as 'Old Bruce'Thought to have been created by Wilsons of Bannockburn. The origin of this tartan is uncertain and it is generally accepted as a district tartan. It is known to have existed as early as 1797. One of the original specimens of this tartan can be found in the West Highland Museum in Fort William. Scottish Tartans Society notes add that it was possibly a Fencibles tartan. Fencibles were a kind of Home Guard formed at the time of the Napoleonic Invasion