MALCOLM (MODERN) Choose:By the metre The hunting version first appeared

The hunting version first appeared in this century

The Chief of the Dunbars

Wilsons of Bannockburn listed this tartan as MacGregor Murray so there may well have been a personal association with it on the part of my g-g-g-g grandfather

sometimes referred to as the 'Gala Water' was first mentioned in the records of Wilson's of Bannockburn in 1793

Other tartans connected with Siol Alpin are red

MALCOLM (MODERN) Choose:By the metre The hunting version first appearedThis is the correct version of the asymmetrical Malcolm as shown by the woven sample in W and A Smith's 1850 publication 'The Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'. Their provenance was 'We addressed Sir John Malcolm of Balbeadie on the subject of his Tartan, and enclosed a specimen, which the worthy Baronet acknowledges to be correct.' D. C. Stewart notes in his Nomindex 'Remarkable similarity to the Double Davidson.'