Cockcade or Rosette?

[Robin]

The Jacobite cockade was a white rose (from cloth), Cumberland's army used a black cockade (the redcoats a rosette).
The rosette on the glengarry is a remnant of these.

[Don Patrick]

Thanks Robin. Your information is a great help. Any idea concerning the difference between the wearing of the plant badge and the clan crest on the cockcade? ...or is it really a normal state of affairs to wear the clan crest on a cap?

My impression was these cockcades may have been used to keep the badges from damaging the wool of the cap - or were the cockades around before the badges?