MANX (HUNTING) MacKenzie Dress ' When woven in muted

' When woven in muted or old colours weavers inexplicably insert a black guard on the white

Scottish Tartans Society records say: Ecclesiastical purple for St Kessog and red from the Lennox tartan with green and aqua for the natural colours of the area

There was thought of calling it the 'Ayr Tartan' but that was discarded in favour of the present name which more aptly celebrated the bicentenary of the poet's birth

The tartan resembles the Campbell of Loudoun except for the red stripe

MANX (HUNTING) MacKenzie Dress ' When woven in mutedManx refers to the Isle of Man, a large (221 sq miles) island in the Irish Sea which is a self governing Crown dependency with a population of about 70,000. The inhabitants are of Celtic origin.