WILSON (MODERN) Choose:By the metre and woven in ancient colours

and woven in ancient colours

Whether or not the pattern was in use before the publication of the Vestiarium Scoticum (1840)

Robert Bain was said to have illustrated it with four red lines but there is no evidence of this in his book 'The Clans & Tartans of Scotland'

America and Germany

In his book

WILSON (MODERN) Choose:By the metre and woven in ancient coloursNamed after Janet Wilson, wife of the Bannockburn weaver, William Wilson who manufactured tartans from 1765. It is suggested in the extensive archives of the company that the tartan was prepared for the wedding in 1780 between the William Wilson, the son of the founder, and Janet Paterson. The sett was later introduced as the Clan Wilson family tartan.