MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) [non-wool] MacKay Earl of Inverness

Earl of Inverness

hid it in a rock cleft

Originally raised in 1817 as part of the army of the British East India Company

and attracts around 750 000 visitors annually

local family-run mill

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (MODERN) [non-wool] MacKay Earl of InvernessAlso known as MacLeod Dress and sometimes jokingly referred to as 'Loud MacLeod' but Sir Thomas Dick Lauder obviously liked it . . . in a letter to Sir Walter Scott in 1829 he wrote, 'MacLeod has got a sketch of this splendid tartan, three black stryps upon ain yellow fylde.' Apparently MacLeod was a special friend of the Hays Stuarts Sobieskis and one of the brothers gave him the sketch many years before the Vestiarium Scoticum was published. Robert