SHAW OF TARDARROCH RED (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre One documented claim states that

One documented claim states that this was designed by David Thomas - one time director of the Strathmore Woollen Co

one year after the proscription of Highland dress

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

Jamie Scarlett MBE comments that if that is correct

A lady of very high rank obtained the cloth for us from a member of the family - besides which

SHAW OF TARDARROCH RED (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre One documented claim states thatDesigned 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.