MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) [non-wool] Graham of Menteith the 42nd and the Cameron

the 42nd and the Cameron Highlanders

this swatch is the approved shade

as part of the Royal Artillery

A strange - and so far inexplicable - fact that he pointed out was that the complicated Drummond of Strathallan contains many elements from this Ogilivie tartan - as if forecasting the 1812 wedding

without having been formed into a square

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) [non-wool] Graham of Menteith the 42nd and the CameronAlso 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