MACRAE OF CONCHRA (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'M' the Army clothier prior to

the Army clothier prior to 1822

Stewart notes in his Nomindex 'Remarkable similarity to the Double Davidson

This is from the threadcount documented in Jamie Scarlett MBE's 'Tartan the Highland Textile' (1990)

The MacColls are a branch of the Clan Donald who settled around Loch Fyne

MACRAE OF CONCHRA (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'M' the Army clothier prior toMajor John MacRae Gilstrap of Otter Ferry furnished the following in 1904 re this tartan. "When my great great grandfather, John MacRae of Conchra, Lochalsh, was on his way to Sherrifmuir from Kintail, some of his followers being without stockings, the occupants of a shieling in which some of them lodged, spent the night in cutting out stockings for them from a web of cloth which they had in the place. A piece of this web was in the possession of my