This very painting shows a winter landscape with a curling scene.On the other hand, there is an obituary from 1511 about the medical doctor George Ruthven, in witch is pointed out that he was firmly addicted to curling.
Either Holland or Scotland, you'll smile anyway while getting involved with the curling history. Not only medicine doctors, particularly the sacredness authorities did indulge in curling. Therefore you find in a written process record form 11. December 1638, that John Graham, nothing less than the Bishop from Orkney in north Scotland, has profaned the Sunday by playing curling: " He was a curler on the ice on the Sabbath day". The first founded Curling Club was the one called Kinross-Club playing in Lochleven. A few history students, leaded by judge Skelton, decided in 1818 to think back the formal established founding of the club until 1668.
It's guessed, that already 42 Clubs where founded in the 18th Centaury. Most of them where located in the area around Stirling and Perth. One of these clubs was also the one from Muthill- Society. Someone found in their accounting book a position that said, that the icemaker Isabel White obtained some Whiskey.
The oldest curling stones stems from this region also. The inscription on one of these stones is: ST.Js B/STIRLING/1511. Today's form and weight, about 44 pounds, made of Blue Hone granite does predominate since the middle of the 19th Centaury.
In Edinburgh was founded the "Grand National Curling Club on 25 July 1838. Today it is known as the "Royal Caledonian Curling Club", also referred to as the mother of every curling club all over the world.