MAXWELL (MODERN) Choose:By the metre Robert Bain was said to

Robert Bain was said to have illustrated it with four red lines but there is no evidence of this in his book 'The Clans & Tartans of Scotland'

A 1937 pattern book calls this 'Lady MacDonald

' (*Consider the 'District' version that shows this correction)

The MacColls are a branch of the Clan Donald who settled around Loch Fyne

MAXWELL (MODERN) Choose:By the metre Robert Bain was said toScottish Tartan Society notes: Tartans of the Lowland families were not named until the publication the 'Vestiarium Scoticum' in 1842. The authors, the Sobieski Stuart brothers, enjoyed a popular following amongst the Scottish gentry in the early Victorian era, and in the spirit of the times, added mystery, romance and some spurious historical documentation to the subject of tartans. The Maxwells have, nevertheless, a tartan of at least 150 years