Lace and fringe sample, drummer, 90th (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot, sealed pattern, 1860

White worsted lace 5/8 inches in width, bearing a red chevron design and edges trimmed with blue worm of stitched worsted. 1.75 inch long fringe of twisted worsted of red, white and black.

A 'sealed pattern' is a prototype of any item that the British Army issued to soldiers. It provided clothing or equipment suppliers with an example to copy.

Raised in Scotland in 1794 as the 90th Regiment of Foot, it became the 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) on absorbing the Perthshire Volunteers in 1802. It became the 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry) in 1815. Under the Childers Reforms of 1881, the regiment amalgamated with the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot to form the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). In 1968, the regiment chose to disband rather than amalgamate again. It was only one of two regiments to do, the other being the York and Lancaster Regiment.