MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'A' besides being approved by the

besides being approved by the manufacturers and dealers

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

before publication in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842)

The design has the traditional green

There is a separate tartan for the MacNeils of Colonsay

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'A' besides being approved by 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