SHAW GREEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Notes relating to the portrait

Notes relating to the portrait of Murdoch MacNeil painted by Macleay in 1868 refer to 'the newly designed MacNeill of Colonsay tartan

In early versions (as shown here) bright pink replaces the crimson between the three green lines

It has since also come to be regarded as a family tartan for those of the name Paisley

The hunting version first appeared in this century

SHAW GREEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre Notes relating to the portraitThis sett was published by McIan (c. 1845) in a drawing of Farquhar Shaw of the Black Watch, who was executed for mutiny in 1743. Co author, James Logan, describes the figure as wearing the 'regimental' tartan with a red line to distinguish the philabeg from the belted plaid. The Shaw tartan, it appears, had been derived from errors in the graphic illustration of the Black Watch.