Glamis Castle Prince Charles Edward Stuart tartan

[OC Richard]

Now a third old example of PCES tartan has come on my radar, a bias-cut tartan suit in the NMS collection said to date to 1822.

Here's the three tartans compared.

Note that the green area stays pretty much the same, but the relative widths of the black/azure/red section vary from example to example.

Here's with my mockups which were carefully matched to photos of the originals. Clearly the NMS tartan suit has the narrowest azure and the widest red.



My preference is for the West Highland Museum Trews sett, with the widest azure and narrowest red.