Feileadh Mor tartan as camouflage?

[figheadair]

figheadair, can you tell me more about that tartan? I love the colour palette. Your photo name seems to suggest it is an unknown tartan, but also says Clan Stewart. Is this actually a clan tartan, or just an old unnamed tartan?

There are a number pieces of the original plaid extant, the largest being in the NMS collection. The photo is of the STA's specimen which it inherited from the Scottish Tartans Society's collection. I remember it being donated by the Stewart of Ardvorlich (Loch Earn) in whose family it had been for many years. They always referred to it as the Clan Stewart tartan on account of their ownership but did not know when or from where they acquired it.

I have not had time to ask the NMS where their piece came from but it would not surprise me if it was from the Carmicheal Collection and thus possibly from the West Coast but I cannot be sure as yet. A lovely piece nonetheless whatever it's origins.