SINCLAIR RED (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'E' DW Stewart says no documentary

DW Stewart says no documentary evidence exists of Rob Roy actually wearing it but in their 1850 book "The Clan and Family Tartans of Scotland" William and Andrew Smith of Mauchline wrote: "Of this distinguished personage no fewer than three original portraits exist - all taken from life

Alison Stewart of the Scottish Tartans Information Centre [Scottish Tartans Society] in July 1964 notes that this sett was first found in the lists of Johnston & Ross about 1930

Scottish Tartan Society notes: A sample of this sett is included in the Royal Tartans collection at the Scottish Tartans Society under the title `Stewart of Bute'

though used only by the Robertsons of the North

probably designed by persons of great imagination and flair

SINCLAIR RED (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'E' DW Stewart says no documentaryAppears in a portrait of Alexander 13th Earl of Caithness 1790 1858.