MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'A' There is a separate tartan

There is a separate tartan for the MacNeils of Colonsay

The sett was unnamed

It is possible that the tartan was in existence long before the earliest recorded date given

MacAlisters are descendants of Donald of Islay

In June 1959 the Burns Federation accepted the design with the condition that all goods should be made in Scotland

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'A' There is a separate tartanAlso 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