Brodie Tartan

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

Part of Clan Brodie

About this tartan

Clan Brodie's origins are uncertain, with theories connecting the name either to the ancient Pictish royal line of Brude or to the Gaelic word for a mire or ditch. The family is first recorded in 1311, when Michael, Thane of Brodie and Dyke, appears in the reign of Robert the Bruce; a letter of that king from the same year concerning the thanages of Dyke and Brodie is still kept at Brodie Castle, near Forres in Moray. During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms the Brodies were committed Covenanters, and Brodie Castle was burned by Lord Lewis Gordon's forces in 1645; much of the clan's early records were lost in the fire

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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.