MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) - Tartans beginning with 'K' in the collection of the

in the collection of the Highland Society of London (c

This sett was produced for Captain Charles Hepburn in 1968 by Anderson's of Edinburgh

Further research by Alasdair 'MacInnes' Campbell of Fort William has identified John MacInnes of Onich

and in the spirit of the times

and enclosed a specimen

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) - Tartans beginning with 'K' in the collection of theAlso 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