WILSON (MODERN) Choose:By the metre America and Germany

America and Germany

Henderson is MacEanruig - pronounced MacKendrick

and woven in ancient colours

Also known as The Falkirk Tartan because of the discovery of such a weave in the neck of a jar containing Roman coins buried about 260 A

From W & A K Johnston's 1906 publication which states that it was taken from a piece of tartan dyed and woven by the wife of Alexander XVI of Keppoch who was killed at Culloden

WILSON (MODERN) Choose:By the metre America and GermanyNamed 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.