MENZIES [RED & WHITE] (MODERN) Choose:By the metre The history of the Clan

The history of the Clan MacAlpine is obscure

First illustrated in the 'Vestiarium Scoticum' this sett is known as the Cameron Clan tartan

an Australian of Skye descent

suggesting a territorial origin for both

MENZIES [RED & WHITE] (MODERN) Choose:By the metre The history of the ClanThe 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).