MURRAY OF TULLIBARDINE (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'F' The Fletchers were originally arrow

The Fletchers were originally arrow makers associated with the Stewarts and Campbells in Argyll and with the MacGregors in Perthshire

or MacDuffie held lands on the Isle of Colonsay until the mid seventeenth century but were later scattered by the clearances

but it appears that the reconstruction differs somewhat from the original

1845) in a drawing of Farquhar Shaw of the Black Watch

author of 'The Setts of the Scottish Tartans' Trudi tells of attending the 1971 Gathering of the Clans and having a discussion with Sir Ian Moncrieffe

MURRAY OF TULLIBARDINE (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'F' The Fletchers were originally arrowJames Grant, in his book, 'The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland' (1886) says, "That tartan called the Tullibardine is a red tartan, and was adopted and worn by Charles, the first Earl of Dunmore, second son of the first Marquis of Tullibardine. In 1679 he was lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Grey Dragoons" The same sett is shown in the earlier work of the Smith brothers, 'Authenticated Tartans..' (1850) This is the sett shown in the famous picture of