URQUHART (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'U' The sett has its source

The sett has its source in the MacKenzie tartan used in 1777 by John MacKenzie called Lord MacLeod when he raised a regiment called 'Lord MacLeod's Highlanders'

This sett in its shortened form begins to resemble the MacGregor tartan

Before that time Border tartans were generally unnamed

This is the sett that appears in the Vestiarium Scoticum as MacIntosh (Vestiarium Scotorum (1842) 87

From the book: Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893)

URQUHART (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'U' The sett has its sourceFirst recorded in the 1810 Cockburn Collection. This is the Urquhart of Urquhart tartan. The sett also appears in the work of W and A Smith (1850) who claim that their sample was collected in the Highlands by George Hunter, the Army clothier prior to 1822.