Quote Originally Posted by creagdhubh View Post
Thanks Peter!

I have seen this particular sample (in person I might add) of the 'Crubin Plaid' before, however, this is not what I am referring to. The version that is discussed most amongst Macphersons and Clan Macpherson historians, is a bit of hard tartan apparently woven sometime during the 18th-century (maybe earlier), and discovered in the 18th-century. The sample shown above is more than likely a variant of what was originally discovered in Badenoch. Naturally, since the tartan 'craze' was on, Wilson's took it from there, and of course much later, DC Stewart and James Scarlett added their assumptions of the cloth.

Bottom line, to us Macphersons, we definitively believe that an early 18th-century (or maybe earlier) piece of tartan cloth, now cited as the 'Macpherson Crubin plaid,' indeed existed, BUT, naturally, we have no concrete evidence of such a cloth - ONLY a written and spoken account passed down within the Clan Macpherson; specifically through the cadet branch of Slioch'd Gillosa, also referred to as the Macphersons of Invereshie.

Cheers,
And there in lies the problem for me as a tartan historian. Unfortunately heresey without proof is little more than myth. The piece I posted is (incorrectly) claimed to be the Crubin plaid. My mistake earlier, the image you posted is of the Crubin plaid said to have been examined by DCS in 1947. Unfortunately he doesn't say where it was but I have seen other pieces that he examined and recorded completely incorrectly so I remain very sceptical about the supposed original piece.