Lady Borrodales Gift [DW]

This tartan is woven "double width" (54 - 56" wide) with a tuck in edge

A moment in time preserved as tartan. Following the decisive Jacobite defeat at Culloden, Bonnie Prince Charlie fled for his life. He and a tiny clutch of followers skulked from glen to glen and then island to island. The redcoats were always on their scent - like hounds chasing a wounded stag.

Jacobite supporters offered what succor they could - hide their would-be king at the risk of their own lives. One such family was the MacDonald's of Borrodale. The lady of the house is said to have given Prince Charlie a plaid with which to disguise himself better as one of the country folk. This tartan garb would also help keep him warm as he journeyed to the island of Scalpay.

The story is true. Charles left the plaid with Jacobites on Scalpay who later cut it into small swatches as mementos - symbols of hope and defiance. 

Thanks to intense research by noted tartan historian Peter MacDonald and current day Scottish tartan mill, House of Edgar, you can now wear a piece of history.