Alloway Primary School (Ayr)
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 BWBWBWBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10101
Provenance
Earliest known date: June 2009 Winning entry in a school competition from Beth Murdoch in the Primary 4 class. The colours reflect those of the school and the winning design was chosen from a short list by Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond. Brian Wilton of the Scottish Tartans Authority presented the prizes to the winner and finalists on June 19th 2009. First weaving by Ingles Buchan of Glasgow for scarves and ties and for kilts for the Scottish Country Dance team. The competition was organised by the School Parent Council.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 11/04/2009 — Alloway Primary School (Ayr) (register-of-tartans, record)
The tartan was designed by Beth Murdoch, the winner of the school competition to design a tartan for Alloway Primary School, Ayr. The tartan will be used to make scarves, kilts for the Scottish Country Dance team, ties etc as well as for printing on notepads, pencils etc to sell at school events to raise money. The competition was organised by the Parent Council. - June 2009 — Alloway Primary (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Winning entry in a school competition from Beth Murdoch in the Primary 4 class. The colours reflect those of the school and the winning design was chosen from a short list by Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond after input from Brian Wilton of the Scottish Tartans Authority who also presented the prizes to the winner and finalists on June 19th 2009. First weaving by Ingles Buchan of Glasgow for scarves and ties and for kilts for the Scottish Country Dance team. The competition was organised by the school Parent Council.. - June 2009 — Alloway Primary School Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 11/04/2009 (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: 10101
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10101
Thread count
Y/36 N20 W8 DB2 LB60 DB2 W8 N/20
One full sett is 256 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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.
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.
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