From these notes we know the Drummers jacket would have been made of a white woolen broad cloth of the same thickness and pattern of a privates jacket. The facings on the collar, cuffs, shoulder straps and wings were red as were the turn backs of the front skirts. Where the drummers jacket begins to differ from that of the private is in the application of lace. According to a contemporary description of 1802 drummers lace was "a mixture of colour worsted wool approaching that of the lace of the rank and file. But the pattern has been in the option of the colonel". When in 1871 all regiments adopted a standard drummers lace there were over 250 patterns of drummers lace in use and their colour often bore little resemblance to the regiments common lace.
