Cumming Red Modern | 13 - 16 oz. Wool

Mill: Loch
Weight: 16 oz.
Clan Motto: Courage
Known Septs Include: BUCHAN, CHEYNE, CHIENE, COMMON, COMMONS, CUMMIN, CUMMINGS, CUMYN, FARQUHARSON, MACNIVEN, NIVEN, RUSSELL
Notes:
This is the accepted Cumming as certified by the Smiths and produced by the weaving industry but it does differ from the Vestiarium Scoticum version which has an extra narrow green. The note in William & Andrew Smith's 1850 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' reads "Sir W G Gordon Cumming is now the head of this family, and from him we received the pattern here given as 'The Cumyn Tartan'" STS notes say: "This sett closely resembles the 'Vestiarium' version, but is in fact the one given by Logan as MacAuley and illustrated by MacIan in 'The Clans of the Scottish Highlands', 1847. " The date of 1821 given here is from an order for 'Cummings' in the Wilsons' letters.