RAMSAY RED (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'T' If you are unsure of

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Status: On weaving schedule (due to be completed on 31st January 2025)

Alison Stewart of the Scottish Tartans Information Centre [Scottish Tartans Society] in July 1964 notes that this sett was first found in the lists of Johnston & Ross about 1930

The pattern is unusual in that the half sett is not reversed to create a symmetrical square

Scottish 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

RAMSAY RED (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'T' If you are unsure ofAlso RAMSAY of DALHOUSIE Ramsay was one of the names adopted by members of the Clan MacGregor when their own was proscribed. It is not surprising then that an early MacGregor sett was used as a basis for the Ramsay tartan. It is possible that the tartan was in existence long before the earliest recorded date given. Other notes (Harry Lindley) state: ' The first sight of this tartan was in the Vestiarium Scoticum. The name comes from the Lothian