SHAW OF TARDARROCH RED (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Plate XXXI)

Plate XXXI)

DW Stewart says no documentary evidence exists of Rob Roy actually wearing it but in their 1850 book "The Clan and Family Tartans of Scotland" William and Andrew Smith of Mauchline wrote: "Of this distinguished personage no fewer than three original portraits exist - all taken from life

and in Perthshire with Robertson

Jamie Scarlett MBE comments that if that is correct

Note: This tartan is on a weaving schedule due to be completed end of January 2024

SHAW OF TARDARROCH RED (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Plate XXXI)Designed by D. C. Stewart 1969 for Major C. J. Shaw of Tordarroch MBE as a proposed replacement for the existing Shaw derived from an erroneous sett portrayed by R. R. McIan of Farquhar Shaw, the Black Watch mutineer. By permission of the Colonel of the Black Watch, the erroneous sett will be retained for use by the Clan in memory of Cpl Farquhar Shaw.