Jacobite era tartans still in use today

[figheadair]

This thread peaked my interest in the Colquhoun tartan. I found this site: http://www.helensburgh-heritage.co.u...ons&Itemid=461

I don't see any mention of a surviving swatch but the story was compelling enough to post.

An interesting article. I know the author; we agree on some things but not others; I'm driven by evidence. This is the key phrase ". The pattern was listed with Wilsons as “superfine” and was therefore likely to have been regarded as a clan tartan prior to the end of the eighteenth century."

Superfine was a quality of cloth woven by Wilsons of Bannockburn c1800-40. Wilsons gave no evidence to support the idea that they regarded thks a clan tartan. The author of the article believes that there clan tartans in the mid-18th century; an idea I fundanemtally disagree with. There is no evidence for the Colquhoun tartan before c1800.