Scottish clothing

Traditional Scottish clothing is

characterised by the appearance of
tartan or plaid patterns in some
form. Tartan is a pattern consisting
of criss-crossed horizontal and
vertical bands in multiple colours.
Originally it was made from woven
The
earliest
extant
literature
cloth,
but now
additional
materials
written
what is now
are alsoin
used.

Scottish
literature

Scotland, was composed

the middle
of thein
19th
inUntil
Brythonic
speech
the
century,
highland
tartans
were
sixth century and has survived
associated with regions or districts,
as part of Welsh literature. In
rather than by any specific clan or
the
following
centuries
family.
This was
due to thethere
fact that
was
literature
in
Latin, under
the designs were produced
by local
the
influence
oflimited
the Catholic
weavers,
with a
range of
local dyes
andinfor
local
tastes.
Church,
and
Old
English,
brought by Anglian settlers.
After theDavidian
Revolution of the thirteenth
century a flourishing French
language culture
predominated, while Norse
literature was produced from
areas of Scandinavian
settlement.The first surviving
major text in Early
Scots literature is the
fourteenth-century poet John
Barbour's epic Brus, which
was followed by a series of
vernacular versions of
medieval romances. These
were joined in the fifteenth
century by Scots prose works.

Music of
Scotland
Scotland is internationally
known for its traditional
music, which has remained
vibrant throughout the 21st
century, when many
traditional forms worldwide
lost popularity to pop music.
In spite ofemigration and a
well-developed connection to
music imported from the rest
of Europe and the United
States, the music of
Scotland has kept many of its
traditional aspects; indeed, it
has itself influenced many
forms of music.

Scotland Traditions
Scotland Festivals
Founded in 1947, the Edinburgh International
Festival is an annual festival held in celebration
of the arts. From reasonably humble beginnings
over fifty years ago, it is now seen as one of the
most significant celebrations of the arts in the
world.
The Hogmanay Festival
is essentially a new years celebration with a
difference. This festival takes place on the 31st of
December every year and is phenomenally well
supported and raucous. It's a ticketed festival that
starts quite early in the evening reaching its peak
as expected at midnight with the ringing of bells
and plenty of kissing. Then old folk song 'Auld
Lang Syne' is sung and followed by more kissing

Early music
Stringed instruments have been known
in Scotland from at least the Iron Age;
the first evidence of lyres outwith