DRUMMOND OF PERTH (MODERN) Choose:By the metre Gow's father was a 'plaid

Gow's father was a 'plaid weaver' (Sutton/Carr)

but it can be seen in the Cockburn Collection of the same period as the Highland Society of London sample of the Red and Black (#1504)

there are at least 27 different setts

in a mid-19th cent

DRUMMOND OF PERTH (MODERN) Choose:By the metre Gow's father was a 'plaidAlso known as the 'Perthshire or Drummond', 'Perthshire Rock & Wheel' or the 'Drummond of Perth'. This sett is said to be a variation of a pattern called 'Stewart of Fingask', after a plaid allegedly left by Prince Charles Edward Stuart at Fingask in Perthshire in 1746 (William Wilsons of Bannockburn' 1819 Key Pattern Book no. 78, ed. Peter MacDonald 1996). Also recorded in James Logan 'The Scottish Gael' 1831.