MENZIES [RED & WHITE] (MODERN) Choose:By the metre but not a sept

but not a sept

spent the night in cutting out stockings for them from a web of cloth which they had in the place

suggesting a territorial origin for both

also marketed in 20th cent

an Australian of Skye descent

MENZIES [RED & WHITE] (MODERN) Choose:By the metre but not a septThe red and white Menzies tartan appears in the Cockburn Collection (c. 1815) under the name, MacFarlane, but this is taken to be an error on the part of General Cockburn at a time when the establishment of clan names for tartan was in its infancy. The same sett was certified as Menzies, by the clan chief, in the collection of the Highland Society of London (c. 1816).