Is this an official tartan?

**greenfordranger** · 11th December 10, 10:12 AM

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I picked up a few yds. of this a few weeks ago & was wondering if it was a registered tartan or just another purdy plaid

Thanks for looking & any help given

**Maclachlan** · 11th December 10, 10:54 AM

Looks like Douglas grey modern...

**figheadair** · 11th December 10, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by greenfordranger

I picked up a few yds. of this a few weeks ago & was wondering if it was a registered tartan or just another purdy plaid

Thanks for looking & any help given

Another modern trade sett.

**Bugbear** · 11th December 10, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by figheadair

Another modern trade sett.

I'm just wondering what the proper name for a tartan woven with half the sett of a clan tartan would be?

I have a kilt hanging in my closet that is half the sett of a Lamont tartan. I bought it because I was aware that it was not a real Lamont tartan, even though it was being sold as a Lamont. Matt Newsome pointed this out before I bought it; a few others here have the same tartan. I didn't want a clan tartan.

**figheadair** · 11th December 10, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

I'm just wondering what the proper name for a tartan woven with half the sett of a clan tartan would be?

I have a kilt hanging in my closet that is half the sett of a Lamont tartan. I bought it because I was aware that it was not a real Lamont tartan, even though it was being sold as a Lamont. Matt Newsome pointed this out before I bought it; a few others here have the same tartan. I didn't want a clan tartan.

In what way is it a half sett?

**Bugbear** · 11th December 10, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by figheadair

In what way is it a half sett?

I think it is missing the double black stripes, so there is only one black stripe in each sett.

**figheadair** · 12th December 10, 01:20 AM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

I think it is missing the double black stripes, so there is only one black stripe in each sett.

Assuming you mean that there is a single pair of tramlines on each blue rather than the alternating 2/4 per the standard 42nd setting then whay you have is Campbell of Argyll per the Smith brothers' 1850 work.

There are said to be a number of Wilsons specimens of 42nd setting with a 2/2 arrangement i.e. a shortened 42nd count and it's possible that that's how this Lamont/Campbell started out although I have to say, I've never actually seen one of either.

It's possible that at some earlier point, assuming that it existed pre-1850, that your sett might have been called Lamont and/or Forbes but at this stage I'll stick to the Smiths' Campbell of Argyll.

**Bugbear** · 12th December 10, 01:22 PM

Thanks again, figheadair.
There are several other members who have Stillwater kilts in the same tartan. I guess it's good to know what the actual tartan probably is; "Smiths' Campbell of Argyll," rather than Lamont.
Like I said, I bought it thinking it was not a real clan tartan because I have no connection to either of these clans, or any other clans for that matter.