GOW (MODERN) Choose:By the metre and that the white and

and that the white and yellow lines were incorporated to mark the fact that the clan was a sept of Clan Campbell

but the recovery of the original design shows that considerable deviation had been made

General George Wade

Thought to have been created by Wilsons of Bannockburn

GOW (MODERN) Choose:By the metre and that the white andA tartan very similar to this can be seen in a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn of Niel Gow (1717 1807) the famous Perthshire fiddler (see http: www. dunkeldcathedral. org. uk 55 history visitors 228 niel gow). Possibly the basis for the design of later tartans. The Gows or MacGowans were associated with the MacDonalds and the Clan Chattan. Gow is Gaelic for Smith meaning blacksmith. Gow's father was a 'plaid weaver' (Sutton Carr). There apparently is a