MACDONALD OF THE ISLES HUNTING (MODERN alt.) Choose:By the metre 4th Earl of Bothwell (1536-78)

4th Earl of Bothwell (1536-78)

Gow's father was a 'plaid weaver' (Sutton/Carr)

in Perthshire

but this source is unreliable

Based on the design of a tartan Jacket said to have been worn by Prince Charles Edward Stuart at Culloden - earliest date 1746 - now preserved in the Scottish United Services Museum in Edinburgh Castle

MACDONALD OF THE ISLES HUNTING (MODERN alt.) Choose:By the metre 4th Earl of Bothwell (1536-78)Scottish Tartans Society notes: The design first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum and is different from earlier setts attributed to the Lord of the Isles or to any of the Clan Donald branches. It is not generally regarded as a clan tartan. 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