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Clan Drummond Tartan. from the book Old and Rare
Scottish Tartans, by Donald William Stewart

Tradition associates this tartan with the amiable, ill-fated James Drummond, Duke of Perth, who was conspicuous in the '45, and who died on
board a French frigate while attempting to escape in the succeeding year. The
early collections nearly all contain this pattern, which is variously styled
Drummond of Perth, Drummond, and Perth. Portraits of the Duke in tartan
garb are in the possession of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon at Gordon
Castle, and of Lord Ancaster at Drummond Castle, but in neither case is the
painting sufficiently distinct for the confirmation of details. The Murray-
Threipland family preserve at Fingask Castle, a cloak said to have been left
there by Prince Charles Edward ; and its design, reproduced in Plate XL., is the
Drummond of Perth, with the exception of a narrow line. It is probable either
that the garment belonged to the Duke, or that it was made for the Prince
from some of his tartan. The pattern now commonly worn by the Drummonds
is likewise claimed by the Grants, the sett of the latter varying only by the
shade of a blue line ; but there is no proof of the early adoption of either by
the families concerned. The introduction of the two setts last referred to was
long posterior to the use of the example illustrated, and they seem variations of
the Drummond given by John Sobieski Stuart in Vestiarium Scoticum. In
the table to Logan's Scottish Gael the Drummond scheme agrees with the
present plate ; but the manufacturers, no doubt to avoid a multiplicity of
patterns of the same name, have, probably unwittingly, dropped the older of
the two designs.

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