MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre DW Stewart says no documentary

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

dating around 1815

Cotton lined at the waist and hip

wishing to re-establish his tartan - his old pre-1939 kilt had been destroyed in a London air-raid - made an error by centring ONE green line instead of TWO on the red band

but this is taken to be an error on the part of General Cockburn at a time when the establishment of clan names for tartan was in its infancy

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre DW Stewart says no documentaryAlso 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