DUNBAR (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'M' 'MacLeod has got a sketch

'MacLeod has got a sketch of this splendid tartan

It is the same as Ferguson of Balquhidder with the green stripe on blue changed to white

Of the nine independent branches of the Clan Donald

except that the lines centered on the green are white only

DUNBAR (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'M' 'MacLeod has got a sketchThe sett for this once powerful Lowland family first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum. There is also a Dunbar district tartan (#1236, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) woven by Wilson's of Bannockburn around 1850. It is not possible to say whether Wilson's pattern was intended as a district or a family sett. The Chief of the Dunbars, Sir Jean Dunbar of Mochrum, once a jockey, lives in Florida, U. S. A.