Articles on Highland Dress

• Articles by Museum curator, Matthew Newsome
  • The Leine -- Early Gaelic Tunic
  • The Early History of the Kilt
  • Pre-Culloden Tartans
  • Fascinating Facts -- Fact of Fiction? (misconceptions about Highland Dress)
  • Matthew Newsome's Patented Advice for First Time Kilt Wearers
  • Hibernian Dress, Caledonian Custom: a brief history of Irish kilts & tartans, by Matthew Newsome & Todd Wilkinson
• Document Archive
  • Click here for an archive of the monthly Scottish Banner columns by Matthew Newsome
• How-to manuals
  • How to make a box pleated kilt (supplemental text to The Art of Kiltmaking)

Scottish American Culture

• The Kirkin' of the Tartans
• Bagpipes, tartan & insurance: Scottish-American Fraternalism in the 19th Century
• The United States Air Force Tartans
• German Tartans
• Iowa's Scottish Heritage

Other Western NC Scottish Interest

• The Scots-Irish Migration to Western North Carolina
• Alexander Cuming

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