WILSON (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'W' 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'

this swatch is the approved shade

Over the years however it became so popular and was so widely worn by all and sundry that it is now regarded as a Universal tartan (i

the Black Watch mutineer

WILSON (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'W' Robert Bain was said toNamed after Janet Wilson, wife of the Bannockburn weaver, William Wilson who manufactured tartans from 1765. It is suggested in the extensive archives of the company that the tartan was prepared for the wedding in 1780 between the William Wilson, the son of the founder, and Janet Paterson. The sett was later introduced as the Clan Wilson family tartan.