SHAW GREEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre and that the white and

and that the white and yellow lines were incorporated to mark the fact that the clan was a sept of Clan Campbell

the MacKenzies and the Campbells with variations of the basic 'Black Watch' regimental sett

The hunting version first appeared in this century

It has since also come to be regarded as a family tartan for those of the name Paisley

SHAW GREEN (ANCIENT) Choose:By the metre and that the white andThis sett was published by McIan (c. 1845) in a drawing of Farquhar Shaw of the Black Watch, who was executed for mutiny in 1743. Co author, James Logan, describes the figure as wearing the 'regimental' tartan with a red line to distinguish the philabeg from the belted plaid. The Shaw tartan, it appears, had been derived from errors in the graphic illustration of the Black Watch.