GORDON (MODERN) [non-wool] Choose:By the metre The tartan may have been

The tartan may have been in production before 1850

William & Andrew Smith in their 1850 publication say: "The genuineness of our specimen

or asymmetric tartan sett

a book produced between 1829-1842

GORDON (MODERN) [non-wool] Choose:By the metre The tartan may have beenThe Gordon tartan is the regimental tartan of the famous Gordon Highlanders and was selected by the Alexander, the 4th Duke from a choice of three submitted by William Forsyth, a weaver and outfitter from the town of Huntly. Forsyth wrote on 15th April 1793 'When I had the honour of communing with His Grace the Duke of Gordon, he was desirous to have patterns of the 42nd Regiment plaid with a small yellow stripe properly placed. I imagine the yellow