Quote Originally Posted by davidlpope View Post
Some of these early tartans are marketed by the major mills: Strathspey, Huntly, Aberdeen, Kidd, Lochaber, Caledonia, etc. In most cases the original thread counts have been modified a bit (almost no currently woven tartans seem to agree with the recorded thread counts, anyway) and most have become known by other names. For my part, I think the biggest difference between these old setts and modern tartans are the colors used in weaving. I agree with Peter M. that the WOB colors make any of these setts look very nice, particularly with green/blue tartans. The nice thing is that you can have ANY tartan custom-woven in the WOB colors by Dalgliesh!

David
Whilst the setts you mention are indeed pre-Sobieski, as are most of Wilsons' setts, they are not the same as the pre-Proscription setts which probably need their own category as they are the truly old ones.