MALCOLM (MODERN) SOLID rather than the clan associations

rather than the clan associations of the earliest Highland tartans

James Hepburn

three black stryps upon ain yellow fylde

a family tartan based on the Douglas was introduced to commemorate early family connections

and this provides a tenuous connection which might explain the origin of the design

MALCOLM (MODERN) SOLID rather than the clan associationsThis 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.'