MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre Cotton lined at the waist

Cotton lined at the waist and hip

dating around 1815

Also known as Comyn

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

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) Choose:By the metre Cotton lined at the waistAlso 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