Tweedside Modern

The following names commonly found in Tweedside: Darling, Fairgrieve, Forman, Foreman, Hawson, Heatlie, Heatly, Palmer, Penman, Russell, Russel, Swanston, Waitt, Waite, Welsh, Welch

Count taken from a fine silk specimen C.1840 which is in a book (Wilson No.4) belonging to the Scottish Tartans Society. Although this tartan - like so many that have a geographical name - is now regarded as a District tartan ('the River Tweed runs through the Scottish Borders) it doubtless started life as a fashion tartan so named by its designers/weavers, Wilsons of Bannockburn.