Today we were learning about the Scottish national dress, a kilt.
We were so lucky because Murray's Dad (Alan) agreed to come in and show us his full formal kilt. His kilt is made from the tartan design for his family name, Dundas. We looked up some of our own surnames to see if there was a tartan or not. There are thousands of tartan designs! We also learnt about all of the accessories that go with the kilt; the sporan, fly plaid, Prince Charlie jacket and waistcoat, ghillie brogues, hose, flashes, tuxedo shirt with bow tie and the sgian dubh knife.
Some of us chose a piece of the Scottish Kilt suit that we wanted to try on. It was very heavy. The whole suit altogether weighs 4kg 360g. We thought it must get very hot under all of those layers and Alan agreed. There was one bonus though... it keeps him cosy at winter weddings.
In the afternoon, we then started deigning and making some of our own tartans. We are going to think of names for them tomorrow. Here are a few of the finished examples...
