Scottish Kilts for Super Heroes!

Paisley (Scottish Gaelic: Pàislig) is the largest town in the Scottish county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands. It is also home to Houston Kiltmakers, a fourth generation family-run business. The kilt makers have now created tartans for comic book superheroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, Batman and Superman. Next on their agenda is a tartan range for female characters including Supergirl and Catwoman.

Tartan is the national dress of Scotland. Highlanders wrapped themselves in tartan when going into battle. However, for 30 years after the battle of Culloden and the ending of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, wearing tartan and playing the pipes was forbidden by the British Government. Scots who risked wearing the kilt were imprisoned or sometimes deported to other lands. That was certainly a time when tartan clad super heroes were needed!