MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'A' but with the addition of

but with the addition of a red stripe

before publication in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842)

There is a separate tartan for the MacNeils of Colonsay

This sett is one of those delivered to the Society between 1815 and 1822

besides being approved by the manufacturers and dealers

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'A' but with the addition ofAlso 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