MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre wishing to re-establish his tartan

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

The discovery was made during the demolition of a Black House on Lewis in 1935

Cotton lined at the waist and hip

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre wishing to re-establish his tartanAlso 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