MACDONALD OF SLEAT (ANCIENT) DISTRICT The Siol Alpin is claimed

The Siol Alpin is claimed as the origin of a number of clans

The Sobieski Stuart brothers who published the Vestiarium claimed to be the heirs to a manuscript once in the hands of Prince Charles Edward Stuart himself but the original was never produced for public examination

but it appears that the reconstruction differs somewhat from the original

has had the concurrence of a gentleman of the name

MACDONALD OF SLEAT (ANCIENT) DISTRICT The Siol Alpin is claimedAlso Middleton Middleton of Kinfauns. Scottish Tartan Society notes: The MacDonald of Sleat tartan was manufactured in the 18th century and called MacDonald of Sleat, Lord of the Isles. The pattern was devised from an old MacDonald tartan that is shown in a painting at Armadale Castle, but it appears that the reconstruction differs somewhat from the original. Whether this was intended or simply a mistake is entirely open to conjecture but it would not