MacKenzie

I decided to do some more research into the Mackenzie clan and came across the one of my chosen images,  I thought it was a fashion plate, instead it turns out to be a painting of Kenneth and Thomas MacKenzie, painted in 1868, both men wearing MacKenzie tartan. They wore traditional kilt jackets in matching fabrics, a navy blue/ grey jacket, with their family clan tartan. Even though Mackenzie have overall tartan fabrics, there are different clan sectors or family origins which have different tartans. There jackets blend in with the blue/grey lines in the tartan. The socks of Thomas MacKenzie show the clan design of stag’s head and horns. The background shows Loch Duich, on the west coat of Ross-shire, with Eilean Donan Castle and Tulloch Ard.

My models father is a Black Mackenzie, so normally a navy blue wool would be worn not to dissimilar to the above, the tartan is different.