BURNS CHECK Choose:By the metre Named after Sir Ralph Abercrombie

Named after Sir Ralph Abercrombie and produced by Wilsons about the end of the 18th Century

Wilson supplied the MacLeods

The Gows or MacGowans were associated with the MacDonalds and the Clan Chattan

The first published version of the tartan appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum

BURNS CHECK Choose:By the metre Named after Sir Ralph AbercrombieAlmost 50 years ago the late Baron Marchand of Messrs George Harrison & Co. of Edinburgh explained to E. S. Harrison of Johnstons of Elgin, how the Burns Check came about. He related that he had been approached by a friend from 'The Scotsman' newspaper with the suggestion that he create a Robert Burns tartan. The first idea had been to base it on the Campbell a clan with which the Burns family were connected but after much discussion it was decided