Trews

Description

Trews from a suit of fine hard tartan acquired by Sir John Hynde Cotton when he visited Scotland in 1744

Museum reference

K.2005.16.2

Collection

Fashion and Textiles

Object name

Trews

Production information

Scotland, Northern Europe

Physical description

Fine hard tartan

Associations

Sir John Hynde Cotton
Madingley, Cambridgeshire, England, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites (23 Jun 2017 - 12 Nov 2017)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Helen Bennett, 'Sir John Hynde Cotton's Highland Suit', Costume (Volume 14, Issue 1: 1980), pp. 95-109