MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre MacAlisters are descendants of Donald

MacAlisters are descendants of Donald of Islay

near Stonehaven

Wilsons of Bannockburn were producing it before 1820 - but only under the name of 'Regent'

This is the same sett as MacDonald of Sleat

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre MacAlisters are descendants of DonaldAlso 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