ERSKINE (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'M' from an existing design

from an existing design

the commander of British forces in North Britain authorised the formation of six independent companies of troops to police the Highlanders

MacAulay or Cummin

This is said to be one of the oldest of the tartans produced by Wilsons of Bannockburn

Also recorded in James Logan 'The Scottish Gael' 1831

ERSKINE (MODERN) - Tartans beginning with 'M' from an existing designThe Erskine clan or family originated in Renfrewshire. The first published version of the tartan appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum, a romantic history of Scottish dress produced in 1842 by the Sobieski brothers. Cunningham tartan, published in the same work, differs only in the addition of a white stripe between the narrow green lines. Cunningham was one of the names adopted by the MacGregors, and this provides a tenuous connection which might