Quote Originally Posted by figheadair View Post
A point well made. A letter of 1797 to Wilsons of Bannockburn orders:

Send us 200 yd Linsay the The Inclosed pattern – the article is fr negro wear and must be very low priced if possible not above 1/- or under if you can. It must also be had befr 1 January as a vessel sails early in the Year from Port Glasgow.

The term Linsay has been misunderstood by some, not least in the Blog comments, to mean the Lindsay tartan. In fact, it referred to linsey-woolsey cloth. Helpfully the letter includes a specimen and so there can be no doubt.
What does one make of this?

http://www.tartansauthority.com/tart...1409/kidd-clan