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14th December 11, 08:20 AM
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Re: A Question for the Experts: What are your favorite old setts?
Greetings,
There's a bit (approximately the size of a modern day swatch of tartan) of old tartan known amongst the Clan Macpherson as the Macpherson Crubin plaid, and can be considered a very important sett - both historically and aesthetically. It is said that a piece of this particular tartan was found inside an old wooden trunk by a Macpherson (of Crubin) woman assisting in the clearing out of black house located in Crubin, Inverness-shire (in lower Badenoch near Dalwhinnie), during the 18th-century, and at that time, it was obvious to her that the piece of tartan was already quite old.
The Macpherson Crubin plaid may have influenced the development of several tartan setts, to include the following tartans we see today: Caldeonian, Kidd, the Macpherson (Clan) tartans, Mackintosh (Chief), and the Chattan (Clan) tartans. The preceding setts are fairly similiar to that of the Macpherson Crubin plaid, and the modern day colouring of the so-called, 'Macpherson of Crubin' tartan, are indeed a close match to the colouring of the Clan Chattan tartan.
I am unsure if an actual photograph of the Macpherson Crubin plaid, of which I am referring to, (there is indeed a variant of the Macpherson Crubin plaid on display in the West Highland Museum located at Fort William - more than likely woven by Wilson's of Bannockburn) exisits somewhere, or whether or not the actual bit of hard tartan, found so many years ago, has survived to this day. The Macpherson Crubin plaid is not a part of the permanent collection at the Clan Macpherson Museum and House in Newtonmore, Inverness-shire, and Clan Macpherson historians are unsure what happened to the bit of tartan, and furthermore, have drawn no conclusions. What we do know, is that the only shroud of evidence that the Macpherson Crubin plaid ever existed, is through simple, written and spoken word amongst the Clan Macpherson throughout the generations.
'Macpherson Crubin Plaid'

http://www.tartansauthority.com/tart...n-crubin-plaid
Cheers,
Last edited by creagdhubh; 14th December 11 at 10:18 AM.
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