TARTAN was a rebel cloth. It is well known that in the Act of Proscription following Culloden it was stated: “That from and after the first day of August [1747]….no man or boy … other than such as shall be employed as officers and soldiers in his Majesty’s forces …shall … wear or put on the clothes commonly called Highland Clothes (that is to say) the plaid, philebeg, or little kilt, trowse, shoulder belts, or any part whatsoever of what peculiarly belongs to the highland garb; and that no tartan, or party-coloured plaid or stuff shall be use”.
This was to apply to the whole of Scotland, not just the “Highland” counties.
