GOW (MODERN) Choose:By the metre rendered in Lindsay as dark

rendered in Lindsay as dark blue

but the recovery of the original design shows that considerable deviation had been made

added mystery

Scottish Tartans Society notes: The design first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum and is different from earlier setts attributed to the Lord of the Isles or to any of the Clan Donald branches

It appears in the Highland Society of London collection as Galbraith

GOW (MODERN) Choose:By the metre rendered in Lindsay as darkA tartan very similar to this can be seen in a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn of Niel Gow (1717 1807) the famous Perthshire fiddler (see http: www. dunkeldcathedral. org. uk 55 history visitors 228 niel gow). Possibly the basis for the design of later tartans. The Gows or MacGowans were associated with the MacDonalds and the Clan Chattan. Gow is Gaelic for Smith meaning blacksmith. Gow's father was a 'plaid weaver' (Sutton Carr). There apparently is a