MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'A' also marketed in 20th century

also marketed in 20th century as Hunter

It is possible that the tartan was in existence long before the earliest recorded date given

This sett is one of those delivered to the Society between 1815 and 1822

besides being approved by the manufacturers and dealers

before publication in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842)

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'A' also marketed in 20th centuryAlso 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