Tartan facts for kids

Three examples of Scottish tartan.

Related pages

• Tartan Day, a day set aside for the celebration of the Scottish influence on North America, Australia and New Zealand, but not celebrated in Scotland itself. It is the anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath.
• Tartanry

Images for kids

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  Tartan weaving in Lochcarron, Scottish Highlands

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  The colour of the Clan MacLeod tartan was described in an 1829 letter by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder to Sir Walter Scott; "MacLeod (of Dunvegan) has got a sketch of this splendid tartan, three black stryps upon ain yellow fylde".

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  John Campbell of the Bank, 1749. The present official Clan Campbell tartans are predominantly blue, green and black.

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  The MacDonald boys playing golf, 18th century, National Galleries of Scotland

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  David Morier's An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745. The eight featured highlanders in the painting wear over twenty different tartans.

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  The world's first permanent colour photograph, taken by Thomas Sutton (using the three colour process developed by James Clerk Maxwell) in 1861, was of a tartan ribbon.

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  Clan Armstrong tartan

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  Highland dancing at a 2005 Highland games held in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.

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  MacLachlan hunting tartan

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  Scottish regional airline Loganair in its tartan livery

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  A German punk wearing a piece of the Royal Stewart tartan, 1984

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  Coat of arms of the now-defunct Scottish Tartans Society

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  Scottish actor Sir Sean Connery at a Tartan Day celebration in Washington D.C. When knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 he wore a green-and-black hunting tartan kilt of his mother's MacLean clan.

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  Royal Stewart tartan

See also

In Spanish: Tartán para niños