About us

Who runs this, and
why it is free.

FreeKilt is a photo contest funded and fulfilled by Scottish Kilt. There is no catch, but there is a reason, and you should know what it is before you send us a photograph.

The plain version

Scottish Kilt sells tartan in most of the forms it comes in. We wanted photographs of real people living with it rather than studio shots on a white background, and we wanted to meet the people who care about clan setts instead of advertising at them. So we give away $200 of the range in exchange for a photograph and permission to show it.

That is the whole model. You get a free entry and a real chance at a piece you choose. We get a gallery of actual customers and a reason for people to come back. Nobody is pretending this is a charity.

What we will not do is dress it up. There are no invented entry counts on this site, no fabricated testimonials, and no stock photography presented as community submissions. If a number appears on FreeKilt it comes from the database, and if it is zero it says zero.

The short facts
  • Run and funded by Scottish Kilt, scottishkiltshop.com
  • Free to enter. No purchase, open worldwide, 18 and over
  • Prizes come from the Scottish Kilt catalogue, not sourced elsewhere
  • Materials named per piece and never called wool
  • Your photograph stays yours. We licence it, we do not own it
  • No affiliate links anywhere on this site
The company behind it

Scottish Kilt.

Scottish Kilt is a specialist tartan retailer selling worldwide. The range runs well beyond the garment the contest is named after.

What we make

Kilts and utility kilts, skirts, trews, jackets and tartan suits, sashes and ties, home and interiors, fabric by the yard, instruments and accessories, and leather goods.

See the full range

What it is made from

We name the material on every piece and we do not round it up. Tartan cloth is premium acrylic yarn. Utility kilts are 100% cotton. Leather goods are genuine leather.

We do not describe any product as wool, anywhere, in any context.

Made to measure

Most pieces are cut to your own measurements rather than to a size chart. Allow three to four weeks to make, plus shipping. Stock items ship in five working days.

Where it is made

[CONFIRM BEFORE PUBLISHING] One or two plain sentences on where the work is done and by whom. State it honestly. Craft origin is a differentiator when it is specific and a liability when it is vague.

What counts as an entry

One rule, and that is all.

One photo with tartan clearly visible in it. If you are wearing the tartan, you need to be in the photo.

We do not care what the tartan is on. A contest that only accepts kilts speaks to people who already own one, and that is a fraction of the people who own tartan. So we stopped drawing lines and kept one rule.

Your photograph

Said once, in plain terms.

  • We display it on FreeKilt, credited to the name on your account
  • We may repost it on the FreeKilt and Scottish Kilt social accounts, credited
  • We may use it in advertising, credited. You agree to that at upload, in one checkbox
  • You can withdraw an entry at any time and we take it down within 7 days
  • You keep the copyright. We never sell your photograph or your email address
And what we will not do
  • Publish an entry count, member count or vote count that did not come from the database
  • Write a testimonial nobody said
  • Put stock photography in the gallery. An empty gallery is honest
  • Describe acrylic tartan as wool
  • Sell your data or hand it to a broker
  • Charge for a listing on the Highland Games calendar
Contact

Talk to a person.

Questions about an entry, a prize, your data, or a gathering you want listed. One address, answered by someone who can act on it.

Registered details

[CONFIRM] Registered entity name
[CONFIRM] Registered address, line 1
[CONFIRM] City, region, postcode, country
[CONFIRM] Company or registration number

Email [CONFIRM]
Hours [CONFIRM]

These fields also populate clause 1 of the contest rules and the controller section of the privacy notice. Fill them once, use them in all three places.

Elsewhere

The rest of it.

Scottish Kilt

The shop. Every prize on FreeKilt comes from here.

scottishkiltshop.com

Scottish events calendar

Every major date from Burns Night to Hogmanay, reviewed monthly. Free to use and free to link to.

Open the calendar

Clans and tartan

The clan map, the Dress Act, and why the setts survived thirty six years of prohibition.

Read it

That is it. The rest is just entering.

Free, no purchase necessary, open worldwide to anyone 18 or over.

Submit an entry