MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre even though Eachin Reganach was

even though Eachin Reganach was in fact the elder brother of Lachlan

except that the lines centered on the green are white only

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

DW Stewart says no documentary evidence exists of Rob Roy actually wearing it but in their 1850 book "The Clan and Family Tartans of Scotland" William and Andrew Smith of Mauchline wrote: "Of this distinguished personage no fewer than three original portraits exist - all taken from life

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre even though Eachin Reganach wasAlso 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