STEWART HUNTING (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'K' There was thought of calling

There was thought of calling it the 'Ayr Tartan' but that was discarded in favour of the present name which more aptly celebrated the bicentenary of the poet's birth

Pattern from the manuscript of William and Andrew Smith's 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'

the first chief of the MacLeans of Duart

in the work of H

STEWART HUNTING (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'K' There was thought of callingAn asymmetric pattern. Scottish Tartans Society notes: The pattern books of the old firm of weavers, Wilson's of Bannockburn, provide the first record of this sett which was not published until 1886 when James Grant included it in, 'The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland'. The pattern is unusual in that the half sett is not reversed to create a symmetrical square. Instead the full sett is simply repeated from right to left across the cloth.