I have been planning on a Graham of Mentieth Weathered kilt soon but I may have to slightly change my order. I have found that the Mentieth is an offshoot or historically connected clan while the Montrose is the head. I will be doing a little more research on my own family to verify whether the Mentieth really is the one I want but I have run into a few dead ends as far as which one our family is connected to. Since the Montrose is the head would I be safer going with that one? I want this tartan so I can have our family’s tartan honorably represented and have a variation that I find visually appealing. Not even my Scottish grandmother knows whether we are Montrose or Mentieth as the Grahams are on my (deceased) grandfathers side.

Oh, on another note. I found out that my grandmother wears the Maclean in place of the Hynde because of tartans being similar, the Hynde is very rare and expensive, and Maclean was her grandmother’s maiden name. I know some of you were curious and took offense to her wearing the Maclean as a substitute for her own family’s tartan. Now we can see that she is indeed connected to the Macleans so those "purists" among you can relax. In another post I will write about an interesting book she gave me about tartan and the clans.

Hugh