The name Lindsay first appeared in the Borders of Scotland in the 12th century
Of the better known tartans
' Apparently MacLeod was a special friend of the Hays/ Stuarts/ Sobieskis and one of the brothers gave him the sketch many years before the Vestiarium Scoticum was published
Some of this surname also choose to wear this distinctive and ancient 'Lennox' tartan
By permission of the Colonel of the Black Watch
MACQUEEN (ANCIENT) - Tartans beginning with 'S' The name Lindsay first appearedScottish Tartan Society entry: The tartan of the Clan Revan, so called after Revan MacMulmor MacAngus MacQueen, who led kinsmen of the MacDonald bride for the 10th Chief of the Mackintoshes, to take protection from Clan Chattan. The sett was unnamed, as far as we know, before publication in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842), but this source is unreliable. It has much in common with the Fraser and the Gunn tartans, both of which have four bold stripes,