Traditional kilt-making has been added to the list of endangered crafts YOU may have heard the news that traditional kilt-making has been added to the list of crafts that are in danger of disappearing, so we should probably talk about what’s at risk here. We should also talk about the weird and, to be honest, troubling relationship some men have with their kilts. Knitted deep into the plaid are all sorts of complicated issues, including politics, nationality, and gender, and maybe one day Scottish men will admit it. As for how a traditional kilt is actually made, I saw the process for myself when I visited Kinloch Anderson in Leith. The kilt is made from one eight-yard stretch of material and the skill is chalking it so you know exactly where to put the pleats. The whole thing takes a skilled person about eight hours at least.
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The item in question, a gilded bronze lower right leg, is believed to have belonged to an elaborately-detailed equestrian statue erected in the late second century AD.
It was unearthed by accident along with its stone base in 1820 from a bog in Milsington, near Hawick in the Borders, and the question is often asked, where did it come from, and where is the remainder of what must surely have been a grand monument?
The precise origins of the peculiar finding has left archaeologists and historians scratching their heads for more than a century.
Experts studying the rare artefact, which is part of the National Museum of Scotland’s collection, have established that the foot of the sculpture once had a spur attached, which is believed to have been lost before the item was rediscovered in the Duke of Buccleuch’s charter room at Dalkeith in 1920.