MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) [non-wool] Graham of Menteith it must be one of

it must be one of the earliest known genuine Lowland tartans

25cm x 180cm (9" x 70") including roped fringe

The Wallace tartan's bold pattern makes a statement whilst remaining remarkably easy to style

without having been formed into a square

It was known as The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) from 1881 to 1931 and The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) from 1931 to 2006

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) [non-wool] Graham of Menteith it must be one ofAlso known as MacLeod Dress and sometimes jokingly referred to as 'Loud MacLeod' but Sir Thomas Dick Lauder obviously liked it . . . in a letter to Sir Walter Scott in 1829 he wrote, 'MacLeod has got a sketch of this splendid tartan, three black stryps upon ain yellow fylde.' Apparently MacLeod was a special friend of the Hays Stuarts Sobieskis and one of the brothers gave him the sketch many years before the Vestiarium Scoticum was published. Robert