Vestiarium Scoticum - the tartan Pandora's box

[OC Richard]

An example of the differences in plate and text in the VS, in this case for Chisholm.

Plate (blue lines)


Text (black lines)

And in my opinion there's no reason to follow the Brother's proportions and placements, the verbal description

Chysholme hethe ain greine sett and ain red & vppone the grein set be lystis of bleu with yr sprainis of blak and in the middt vther ain of red and vpon the reid sett twa strypis of quhite

being open to an almost infinite number of variations.

For even if one accepts the VS as genuine, there's no reason to accept the Brothers' drawings as anything other than 19th century guesswork.

I did this quick and dirty Chisholm which follows the VS description as well as any, yet purposely chooses different proportions and placements