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There is a portrait of Duncan Campbell of Lochow, dated 1635, in which he appears to be wearing a solid red belted plaid, fastened below the throat. I say "appears to be" because his belt is hidden...

I doubt the fabric was originally intended for upholstery, but who knows?

I've been able to obtain some better images. First a close-up view of the weave:
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What about an all herringbone or goose-eye twill fabric?

Apart from the fact that the warp and weft patterns were essentially the same, the other thing that caught my notice was the diamond twill (or goose eye, or lozenge twill) pattern. I recall, as a...

No, sort of yes, and I don't imagine it would; otherwise Ingles Buchan ought to be in trouble for false advertising.


Those look more like ancient than weathered colors to me. Not that it matters...

http://s5.postimage.org/m2kueio83/P1120549.jpg

Can anyone identify this tartan?

Great find! I'm looking forward to the update. I had been meaning to start a thread on this tartan for some time (well, some months back), but I should have known you'd get around to it eventually.

The war was rather inconclusive. The U.S. failed to achieve its war aims as a result of the peace agreement. For the U.K. the war was a distraction from the Napoleonic Wars. In the longer term, the...

Yes, for the longest time I thought it followed the vowel pattern of the word "weathervane". Then at the Campbell clan tent at Arlington I heard someone pronounce it with a vowel pattern like...

Thanks, Sara. It's in that spirit that I posted this thread. I've spent most of my life in the western United States, far from the battlefields of the war, and don't claim to have a lot of knowledge...

On June 18, 1812, President James Madison signed into law "An Act Declaring War between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Dependencies Thereof and the United States of America...

Thanks for the recommendation, but I don't drink and the menu items seem a bit steep, even after conversion to RMB. However, I'd be interested in any other recommendations you might have (places to...

Highland Society of London?

Yes, I was going to say, "Didn't they make a movie about this"? And advertised it as the "true" version of the Arthur story, even though it's just about as fictional as any other.

But yes, some...

As they say, "there's no accounting for taste". I see eye to eye with Tolkien on a lot of things, but I was attracted to the sound of Scottish Gaelic when I first became aware of its existence. On...

Before the United States entered the war, Americans who took part in the war (on the Allied side) tended to join the French Foreign Legion, the Escadrille Lafayette, or other French squadrons....

The Cameron of Erracht tartan is believed to have been designed for the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, which were raised in 1793.

I believe they're both fashion tartans.

When I have questions of this sort I usually turn to Streetmap. After a little creative searching, I'm guessing the place you're looking for is what appears to be a single building named "Dherue" or...

Two very similar tartans. One developed into the MacColl tartan. I have a hypothesis that the other one developed into a different named tartan, but I haven't been able to find evidence to back up my...

I interpreted Peter's response to Sydnie to mean that these are two different pieces of cloth.

There seem to be competing claims for the first color photograph. Levi Hill supposedly invented a process in 1850 that successfully reproduced reds and blues, but he was only able to add other colors...

Well, it appears to have been hosted by Photobucket. :p

http://xs.to/media/75721

Note: the color may be somewhat off.