GOW (MODERN) Choose:By the metre but for the black

but for the black

Scottish Tartans Society notes: The design first appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum and is different from earlier setts attributed to the Lord of the Isles or to any of the Clan Donald branches

Thought to have been created by Wilsons of Bannockburn

rendered in Lindsay as dark blue

GOW (MODERN) Choose:By the metre but for the blackA tartan very similar to this can be seen in a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn of Niel Gow (1717 1807) the famous Perthshire fiddler (see http: www. dunkeldcathedral. org. uk 55 history visitors 228 niel gow). Possibly the basis for the design of later tartans. The Gows or MacGowans were associated with the MacDonalds and the Clan Chattan. Gow is Gaelic for Smith meaning blacksmith. Gow's father was a 'plaid weaver' (Sutton Carr). There apparently is a