Quote Originally Posted by Grizzly View Post
Below is an extract from the Cameron website...

1) Basic Clan Cameron: ...this is one from the Vestiarium of Scoticum (sic) in 1834, which was accepted by the then Lochiel. It very much resembles an old red and green square sett in the West Highlands Museum in Fort William, although there are some variations.

2) Cameron of Lochiel: It was first illustrated in 1810 in Wilson's Collection.

3) Cameron of Erracht
In The Setts of the Scottish Tartans, Donald C Stewart states "the Erracht Cameron is the only one recorded by Logan" (1831).

The red "Cameron" with four equal green stripes is one of the group of similarly-arranged tartans created by the English Allen brothers and foisted upon the unsuspecting and gullible Highlanders of their day. These brother had a noticable lack of ingenuity in tartan design, and often ignored traditional ideas of design and proportion and instead favoured rigid mathematical simplicity. Here is another of these four-band tartans:



I would very much like to see the (reputedly) old authentic West Highland tartan which is said to "resemble" the Allen's ungainly Cameron design.

In Setts Stewart states that the Lochiel design first appears in Smith (1850). Is it indeed in one of the Wilson pattern-books? Under what name? (Many of the early Wilson designs were known simply by number, or by fanciful names.)

Were I a Cameron I would not hesitate to wear Erracht, an authentic 18th century tartan, instead of the four-stripe Allen creation.