Quote Originally Posted by SlackerDrummer View Post
It is extremely odd that this would be the case as "modern" v. "ancient" is all about the color scheme and not about the thread pattern. But clearly that's the way they're doing it at Lochcarron. I wonder what the precedent is for this.
That's not the way they are doing it at Lochcarron. That's simply a misidentified picture on the Lochcarron web site. The tartan labelled as "Cameron of Erracht ancient" is actually Carnegie ancient. The two tartans are obviously very similar so in all likelihood the mistake on the Lochcarron web site was due to human error - someone cataloging about 500 tartan images in one day made a quick misidentification. :-)

But back to Rocky's point -- good eye! -- the nineteenth century kilt in question is not Cameron of Erracht, but nor is it Carnegie. To me it looks the most like Wilsons' MacDonald of Glengarry, with yellow in place of white. But perhaps the stripe was originally white and has turned over time?

Any thoughts, Peter?