- Mill: Str
- Weight: 13 oz.
- Notes:
This tartan is a universal tartan, for ANYONE to wear. The name "Caledonia" is based on the Latin word for Scotland, "Caledonii."
This is referred to in one of Wilsons' letters (14.10.1820) and was available at that time alongside Caledonia No. 43 (later MacPherson), and Caledonia No. 155 (ITI 1356). All of them appear in the 1819 patterns book of Wilson's of Bannockburn. Popular in the eighteenth century this particular tartan appears in a number of guises. Romantic stories are told of its origin but in reality little is known. (G. Teall). J. Scarlett asserts that Wilson's No. 155 has never been named, and that Miss Margaret MacDougall was in error when she included it in Robert Bain's "Clans and Tartans of Scotland" (1953) as Caledonia.
This tartan dates to "Pre 1800."