MACDONALD (ANCIENT) CLAN Please contact our Customer Service

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enjoyed a popular following among the Scottish gentry in the early Victorian era

rather than the clan associations of the earliest Highland tartans

The Sobieski Stuart brothers who published the Vestiarium claimed to be the heirs to a manuscript once in the hands of Prince Charles Edward Stuart himself but the original was never produced for public examination

MACDONALD (ANCIENT) CLAN Please contact our Customer ServiceThis is oldest recorded version of the Clan sett. It varies slightly from those recorded by Logan, Smibert, Grant etc., but the motif is the same throughout. Of the nine independent branches of the Clan Donald, there are at least 27 different setts. It was not until 1947 that the MacDonalds again had a high chief, MacDhomnuill, who by tradition has the final word on the tartans of the clan. That right was granted to Alexander MacDonald of MacDonald