Jacobite Remnant [DW]

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  • Mill: HOE
  • Weight: 13 oz.
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    This tartan is woven "double width" (54 - 56" wide) with a tuck in edge

    The ‘Jacobite Remnant’ tartan is the first time the design and colors of the original Moy Hall plaid of Bonnie Prince Charlie have been reproduced with full accuracy.
    1746 was a bleak year for Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite army. The Uprising that started in 1745 with such high hopes and stunning initial successes seemed to be sputtering. 


    One woman who witnessed it all was Lady Anne MacKintosh. A Jacobite Farquarson by birth, she had married into the MacKintosh family - supporters of the Hanoverian government. However her heart was always Jacobite. During the rebellion she raised hundreds of men to her Prince’s cause earning the nom du guerre “Colonel Anne”.
    Now in February 1746 following their retreat from England, the battle-weary Jacobites took refuge on Lady Anne’s estate of Moy Hall. The Bonnie Prince himself honored her unflinching support and kindness with a gift - his very own plaid of red, blue, black and green. Little did either rebel know that this was the last time they would meet. The battle of Culloden would see to that. 


    The ‘Moy Hall plaid’ would come to be a relic of the lost uprising. Lady Anne gave scraps of it to friends and allies as bittersweet mementos - symbols of hope and defiance.
    Thanks to intense research by noted tartan historian Peter MacDonald and his colleagues, you can now wear a piece of Jacobite history.