MORRISON GREEN (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre ' When woven in muted

' When woven in muted or old colours weavers inexplicably insert a black guard on the white

The first published version of the tartan appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum

The MacKillops are a Sept of MacDonald of Keppoch and this is the same sett with the blue replaced by black

Before that time Border tartans were generally unnamed

MORRISON GREEN (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre ' When woven in mutedIn 1597 up to 60 Morrison families fled the Outer Hebrides and resettled on the mainland in north west Sutherland MacKay country. The first record of this 'green Morrison' appears in the 1880 Clans Originaux sample book and its similarity to the Mackay tartan can be explained by the Morrisons' new location.