Vestiarium Scoticum - the tartan Pandora's box

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Which brings me to the questions Peter.

As I have never seen what is contained within those pages, how many designs are contained within and how many of the designs of tartans in those books are actually produced and worn today?

Jock, there are 75 tartan plates covering a mix of Highland Clans and Lowland families (I use the differentiation deliberately). As a generalisation, those clans that had existing tartans, often the work of Wilsons, tend to use the older sett whereas where there was no tartan then the one given by the Allan brothers is often the one still in use today. When I have some time I will run up a list with comment against each.