This piece of work used 45 miles of yarn to complete[/caption Parts of Inverness have been covered in red wool as part of a so-called “guerrilla knitting” project. An unusual twist on ‘painting the town red’. The displays include large pom-poms in the street, crocheted spiders’ webs across alleyways and tombstones in an ancient graveyard […]
On Monday Amanda and I were privileged to be able to attend the service in commemoration for the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden held at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. Over 40 Clan Chiefs were in attendance and you will be able to read the list of names below. The service included lessons […]
We recently had a comment on a post about Sgian Dubhs being banned at events telling us of a new craze going across America at the moment – getting Sgian Dubhs tattooed! This is particularly popular with Scottish Heavy Weight athletes. So here are a few I’ve found:
This is taken from The Court of Lord Lyon’s facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LyonCourt “The Royal Standard of Scotland, (Scottish Gaelic: Bratach rìoghail na h-Alba, Scots: Royal banner o Scotland), also known as the Banner of the King of Scots, or more commonly the Lion Rampant of Scotland, is the Scottish Royal Banner of Arms. Used historically […]
The events company Unique Events and the National Trust for Scotland organising the signature event of Homecoming 2014, Bannockburn Live 2014 have just announced that sgian dubhs cannot be worn to the event stating safety reasons. We believe this is not only wrong but will cause more safety problems as well as bad PR for […]
Flodden was fought just after Henry VIII came to the throne, a long time before he became the chubby, wife murdering tyrant so loved by novelists. It’s a battle that people tend to know very little about, but it’s a battle that changed – well world history. In 1513 Henry was suprisingly – young, handsome […]
THE world’s top haggis hurler Alan Pettigrew has announced he is to quit before his 29 year old record is broken. His world record was set in 1984 when he threw a 1lb 8oz haggis 180ft and 10in on the island of Inchmurrin on Loch Lomond. But the retired school janitor, from Saltcoats, Ayrshire, fears […]
Here at ScotClans we see that ordering clothes for Burns night always catches people by surprise and we get inundated with people desperately needing some tartan to wear to their Burns event. The deadline for ordering for Burns Night is really today (the 11th) as items like ties, bow ties, sashes need to be made […]
Sadly the Founder of The Clan Keith Society USA, INC., George L. Newberry, passed away this morning. George founded the USA Clan Keith Society with John Newberry at Grandfather Mountain. Without George the Clan Keith Society would not have been such a vibrant Clan Society as it is today. For this we have to thank […]
Well done to Kevin McIntyre from Cambridgeshire who won our Treasure Hunt to find the The Lost Chalice of Alba, winning the beautiful stag head prize. A big thank you to all 400+ of you who entered, and we at ScotClans hope you enjoyed it and had a good time testing your Scottish knowledge.
