Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
I have been searching for a source for this long-standing myth regarding dicing for quite sometime now; ironically, historian Stuart Reid mentions that Stewart of Garth described the dicing on bonnets as symbolic of the "fesse-chequey" of Stewart Arms, so if this indeed the case, dicing originally was a Jacobite, and not a government symbol.
Reid does discount this theory and states his belief that dicing was really just a decoration that could have been tied into diced hose.Regards,Todd
Hi Todd,

I don't think the Stewart of Garth explanation will work. The fesse chequey of the Stewarts is Azure and Argent as opposed to the Gules and Argent of the dicing. As you know, heraldicly they would be two totally different arms.



When one thinks of Stewart arms it is always the Azure and Argent, not anything else. I have always thought that it is just decoration.

Regards

Chas