Longhaugh Primary School
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern GBWBBRBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2202
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/05/2005 — Longhaugh Primary School (register-of-tartans, record)
The first Head Teacher of Longhaugh Primary School was a Mr Graham - a famous historical name associated with Dundee from the early days of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose and John Graham ('Bonnie Dundee') Viscount of Claverhouse. The Graham of Montrose tartan was therefore the obvious choice upon which to base the Longhaugh Primary School tartan. The school's colours are green, blue and white and the central band of green bounded by blue and white is the stripe from the school tie. Red was the most popular extra colour chosen by all the children in the school, followed by purple. The broad purple bands have three lines (one each for Dundee's famous three 'Js' - jute, jam and journalism). The colours of the Graham tartan are the same as the school's colours with the addition of black which here is shown between the two red lines and represents Dundee-based publishers D.C.Thomson's Beano comic characters - Desperate Dan (his hair, hat band, moustache and waistcoat are all black) and Dennis the Menace whose hair is black as are the hoops in his sweater. His dog Gnasher is likewise black. The year of the School's foundation (1958) is represented by the number of purple threads either side of the 'three J's' and the number of children in P4/P5 who designed the tartan was 24 - each of them commemorated by a blue thread. Woven sample. - May 2005 — Longhaugh Primary School (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
The first Head Teacher of Longhaugh Primary School was a Mr Graham - a famous historical name associated with Dundee from the early days of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose and John Graham ('Bonnie Dundee') Viscount of Claverhouse. The Graham of Montrose tartan was therefore the obvious choice upon which to base the Longhaugh Primary School tartan. The school's colurs are green, blue and white and the central band of green bounded by blue and white is the stripe from the school tie. Red was the most popular extra colour chosen by all the children in the school, followed by purple. The broad purple bands have three lines (one each for Dundee's famous three 'Js' - jute, jam and journalism.) The colours of the Graham tartan are the same as the school's colours with the addition of black which here is shown between the two red lines and represents Dundee-based publishers D.C.Thomson's Beano comic characters - Desperate Dan (his hair, hat band, moustache and waistcoat are all black) and Dennis the Menace whose hair is black as are the hoops in his sweater. His dog Gnasher is likewise black. The year of the School's foundation (1958) is represented by the number of purple threads either side of the 'three J's' and the number of children in P4/P5 who designed the tartan was 24 - each of them commemorated by a blue thread. Woven sample.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 01/05/2005 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2202
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6645
Thread count
G/40 DB4 W4 DB24 DP58 R2 DP2 K/6
One full sett is 234 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
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234
204
296
290
270
274
274
222
338
338
364
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s8/g20db2w2db12dp29r1dp1k3~x2/