MACLAREN (MODERN) Choose:By the metre It is claimed that in

It is claimed that in earlier times the Highland clergy wore the Highland dress and carried arms and that many attempts were made to prevent them wearing tartan and to force them to wear conventional ministerial habit

The Scottish Tartans Society notes for this tartan attribute the design to the 'Onich Grocer' with no further explanation

and Russell

and derives from Lord Falconer who took over the entailed lands of the Keith

As with so very many tartans

MACLAREN (MODERN) Choose:By the metre It is claimed that inAdopted by the MacLarens at the time of the levee (1822). The MacLaren differs from The Ferguson only in having a yellow line where the latter has a white. They share the unusual feature of an unbroken band of blue. The present tartan appears under this name in Mclan's plate for Clan MacLaren. Wilsons of Bannockburn were producing it before 1820 but only under the name of 'Regent'.