MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'A' This sett was produced for

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

MacAlisters are descendants of Donald of Islay

before publication in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842)

but with the addition of a red stripe

There is a separate tartan for the MacNeils of Colonsay

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'A' This sett was produced forAlso 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