MACHARDY (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'A' This is the correct version

This is the correct version of the asymmetrical Malcolm as shown by the woven sample in W and A Smith's 1850 publication 'The Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'

the Rt Hon Margaret of Mar

the black line was dropped - by mistake or design - in the Vestiarium Scoticum of 1842

One of these

hid it in a rock cleft

MACHARDY (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'A' This is the correct versionAlso MacHardie The structure of the Culloden tartan is very similar to this and Coulsen Bonner calls it Culloden or Ancient MacHardy. The possibility therefore arises that the Culloden which was an unknown tartan found at Culloden might have been an early form of MacHardy.