SCOTT (RED) DISTRICT This book is responsible for

This book is responsible for the bases of many clan tartans

Based on the design of a tartan Jacket said to have been worn by Prince Charles Edward Stuart at Culloden - earliest date 1746 - now preserved in the Scottish United Services Museum in Edinburgh Castle

held land as the hereditary pipers to the MacDonalds

The name comes from the Lothian distrIct of Scotland

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

SCOTT (RED) DISTRICT This book is responsible forThis is the most popular Scott tartan in modern times. Earliest reference possibly 1829 in a letter from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder to Sir Walter Scott in which he tells Scott that he had seen this tartan in a manuscript prepared for the brothers John Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart. Scott rejected the idea very firmly. Jamie Scarlett pointed out (April 2006) that it was interesting that the tartan for Rob Roy MacGregor's greatest publicist Scott