MALCOLM (MODERN) Choose:By the metre Sandy MacPhie

Sandy MacPhie

sometimes referred to as the 'Gala Water' was first mentioned in the records of Wilson's of Bannockburn in 1793

MacAulay or Cummin

who added a yellow line

Wilsons of Bannockburn listed this tartan as MacGregor Murray so there may well have been a personal association with it on the part of my g-g-g-g grandfather

MALCOLM (MODERN) Choose:By the metre Sandy MacPhieThis 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.'