Rosettes instead of Kilt Pins?

[macwilkin]

In the Scottish regiments, two grass green bows were worn by NCOs and officers of the Black Watch (the pipers have Royal Stuart bows on their Royal Stuart kilts), two Royal Stuart ribbon rosettes by pipers of the Scots Guards (with a kilt pin worn in between), and two Leslie rosettes by pipers of the Royal Highland Fusiliers.

The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders were a somewhat special case, their pair of bow/rosette assemblages being worn on an embroidered panel, with two small bow/rosettes being worn on one of the pleats in the rear of the kilt as well.

Senior NCO's and Officers of the Calgary Highlanders, which were an allied regiment of the A & SH, also wear the kilt panel:

http://www.calgaryhighlanders.com/tr.../kiltpanel.htm

T.

[OC Richard]

Thanks Paul for that excellent clear photo of the kilt panel and associated bows/rosettes of the A&SH.

You can see why I called them "bow/rosette assemblages"!! They're complicated little beasties. (Note that two different sizes of ribbon must be used for the ribbons hanging straight down.)

Interesting that there's an old photo of what I believe to be the Glasgow Police Pipe Band in which the Pipe Major, on his Royal Stuart kilt, has the exact embroidery pattern as appears on Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders kilts, but done in red thread. I wonder how common that sort of thing is.