Longmount modern Tartan

**Wolf** · 17th February 08, 08:10 AM

So I came across this tartan and I quite liked it. However I know know nothing about it and I'm not a member of scottish tartan authorities so i couldn't find any detailled information and I don't really know another place to ask this question.
So,
Do you have any information whatsoever concerning it? (Origins, if its affiliated to a clan/family, anything basically)
I only know it's a "Canadian fashion tartan" but don't ask me what it means, just some canadian designer came up with it?
Here's a link
http://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartan/Long...9?:id=PVW96tAj
and here's a picture

Voilà.

PS: I did a search on the name Longmount on Xmark and the internet but all I came up with were some pretty expensive looking skates and "no match"

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 17th February 08, 02:11 PM

There are not too many more details to be had. It is one of many tartans that were produced by West Coast Woolen Mills, a Canadian company that I don't think is any longer in business (according to this, their brand name is now owned by Pendletons in OR).

Many of the tartans they produced are included in the STA index, but the vasy majority of them are fashion designs. Many of them, like this one, seem to be variations of the popular Royal Stewart tartan.

**The Wizard of BC** · 18th February 08, 01:51 AM

West Coast Woolen Mills is now Fraser & Kirkbright Weaving Co. The same who wove our beloved X Marks the Scot Clan Tartan.

Gordon often posts here and perhaps he will respond. If not I'll call him and ask.

Gordon is also the designer of the Hudson's Bay Co. Tartan and was instrumental in the original work on the Canadian Maple Leaf Tartan.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 18th February 08, 05:50 AM

Thanks, Steve. You know I thought I remembered somewhere in the back recesses of my brain that WCWM was now operated under a different name, and I had suspected it was Fraser & Kirkbright, which is why I was a little surprised to see their name now listed as a brand name of Pendletons! Maybe Gordon can shed some light on that!

**Wolf** · 21st February 08, 04:56 PM

Thanks alot for the answers.
However I just wonder if anyone has scene this tartan around (or something ressembling it?) because I really don't want be associated with some movement/ideology/subculture etc... I wouldn't want to be.
I have also been wondering how this tartan would like as a kilt, any ideas or examples?

**Wolf** · 21st March 08, 05:57 AM

Sorry for the double post and bringing this topic out of the graveyard,
but I would like to know if anyone knows if these three tartants could be "wearable" by someone who has no particular links to them.

The first two are rated as fashion tartans by STA so I think i could wear em... but still checking.
http://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartan/Berw..._colour_3=Grey
http://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartan/Luna..._colour_3=Grey

It is however the Brodie Graeme Tartan that bothers me the most, I like the tartan better then the two previous ones but its linked to the Brodie Clan, which seems to have been around for about a millenia, and I'm absolutely not shure I could wear it, so if anyone knows something more about these tartans I would be delighted.
http://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartan/Brodie-Graeme/54523?

PS: I know that legally anyone can wear the tartan he wants... but I would feel alot more comfartable wearing this kilt knowing that I'm not wearing a tartan I "shouldn't" be.

**Ancienne Alliance** · 24th March 08, 06:03 AM

Great looking tartan !

**slohairt** · 24th March 08, 06:58 AM

I like very much! I seem to be favouring the muted style of colouring these days.

**Wolf** · 6th April 08, 06:48 AM

Sorry for ressurecting the thread, but I would just like to check if anyone knows anything about the Clan Brodie and wearing the Brodie Graeme Tartan? (I checked on the internet but couldn't find much more than a page on wikipedia)