MALCOLM (MODERN) SOLID and this provides a tenuous

and this provides a tenuous connection which might explain the origin of the design

a family tartan based on the Douglas was introduced to commemorate early family connections

three black stryps upon ain yellow fylde

The MacNaughton tartan is worn by the 'Vale of Athol' pipe band

MALCOLM (MODERN) SOLID and this provides a tenuousThis is the correct version of the asymmetrical Malcolm as shown by the woven sample in W and A Smith's 1850 publication 'The Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'. Their provenance was 'We addressed Sir John Malcolm of Balbeadie on the subject of his Tartan, and enclosed a specimen, which the worthy Baronet acknowledges to be correct.' D. C. Stewart notes in his Nomindex 'Remarkable similarity to the Double Davidson.'