Blair Tartan

Blankets, clothing, ornaments and gifts in the Blair tartan - each one made for you.

Part of Clan Blair
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About this tartan

Clan Blair descends from two historically separate families with no documented common ancestor: Blair of that Ilk in Ayrshire and Blair of Balthayock in Perthshire, both recorded from the early 1200s. By tradition, the Ayrshire line's Sir Bryce Blair supported William Wallace and was killed by the English at the 'Barns of Ayr', in a story by the poet Blind Harry that historians regard as unhistorical; family accounts add that his nephew Roger was knighted by Robert the Bruce after Bannockburn. The Ayrshire seat was Blair House near Dalry, a 16th-century tower house whose doorway bears the Blair arms, and the Perthshire Blairs lived in the keep at Balthayock

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Modern or Ancient?

Same pattern, different dyes. Modern uses deep, saturated colours; Ancient uses the softer tones associated with natural dyes.