JOHNSTON (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre and in the spirit of

and in the spirit of the times

The MacLaren differs from The Ferguson only in having a yellow line where the latter has a white

but it can be seen in the Cockburn Collection of the same period as the Highland Society of London sample of the Red and Black (#1504)

The MacNeils claim descent from Niall

JOHNSTON (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre and in the spirit ofAlso Johnstone. Scottish Tartans Society notes: A powerful Border Clan who pursued a deadly feud with the Maxwells. Their stronghold was Lochwood Tower, near Beattock, which was burned down by the Maxwells in 1593. The tartan was first published in the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. Before that time Border tartans were generally unnamed. More likely the tartan came from the Aberdeenshire Johnstons, whose family seat is at Caskieben, Blackburn.