NISBET (MODERN) Choose:By the metre A similar device is seen

A similar device is seen in the Cochrane tartan

Stewart thought this took place about the time of the Union (1707)

This may well account for the colours

but there is one amongst you who has nae peer

NISBET (MODERN) Choose:By the metre A similar device is seenThis is the sett that appears in the Vestiarium Scoticum as MacIntosh (Vestiarium Scotorum (1842) 87, Plate XXXI). There is no historical connection between the names Nisbet and MacIntosh to explain this, and it is interesting to note the similarity with the Dunbar tartan (where the white stripes are black) which also originates in the Vestiarium. The Nisbets came from the old barony of Nisbet in the parish of Edrom, Berwickshire, as early as 1160.