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The sett has its source in the MacKenzie tartan used in 1777 by John MacKenzie called Lord MacLeod when he raised a regiment called 'Lord MacLeod's Highlanders'
The pattern was devised from an old MacDonald tartan that is shown in a painting at Armadale Castle
From W & A K Johnston's 1906 publication which states that it was taken from a piece of tartan dyed and woven by the wife of Alexander XVI of Keppoch who was killed at Culloden
The principle family is MacBean of Kinchyle from the northern end of Loch Ness
LOCHABER (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre The sett has its sourceThought to have been created by Wilsons of Bannockburn. The origin of this tartan is uncertain and it is generally accepted as a district tartan. It is known to have existed as early as 1797. One of the original specimens of this tartan can be found in the West Highland Museum in Fort William. Scottish Tartans Society notes add that it was possibly a Fencibles tartan. Fencibles were a kind of Home Guard formed at the time of the Napoleonic Invasion
