NHS tartan

[Blackrose87]

I was looking around on the heritage of Scotland website, and I found a mention of the NHS (national health service tartan).
Does anyone know the history of this tartan? When it was designed, and for what reason?
I'm currently being trained but the NHS and will be working for them in just over a year, so I'd be very interested in wearing it. I've never seen or heard about it before, so any information would be great!



Go raibh mile maith agaibh

[Paul Henry]

some details here "NHS Grampian" tartan
but it appears not to be "the" NHS tartan, but a regional one.

[Seawolf]

Halo,

This quite a nice tartan. Where might this be available?

Tapadh leibh

Seawolf

[Blackrose87]

Halo,

This quite a nice tartan. Where might this be available?

Tapadh leibh

Seawolf

It's available on the D.C Dagleish website if your search for it.
Ahut again, it has no information about it, so I can't figure out if it represents the whole NHS or just NHS Scotland.

[Paul Henry]

It's available on the D.C Dagleish website if your search for it.
Ahut again, it has no information about it, so I can't figure out if it represents the whole NHS or just NHS Scotland.

You might try giving Philip King - Kilt maker a call , as it was designed for them.

It is named NHS Grampian, so it's fairly safe to say that it's more of a regional one, rather than a national one.

It doesn't have restrictions on the register, so DC Dalgleish could certainly weave it, but it might be worth checking for stock first , as the kiltmaker may have had to buy a run of it!

[Blackrose87]

I see that there appears to be two different tartans for the NHS. One for the whole NHS and one for NHS Grampian.

Although only NHS Grampian is on the scottish tartan register, so maybe the NHS one is unofficial?

http://www.dcdalgliesh.co.uk/tartan_found.rpy?id=255159

http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar....aspx?ref=3098

[Chas]

There is this one:

Called the Scottish Ambulance Service



Regards

Chas

[cessna152towser]

I see that there appears to be two different tartans for the NHS. One for the whole NHS and one for NHS Grampian.

Although only NHS Grampian is on the scottish tartan register, so maybe the NHS one is unofficial?

It appears to me that both these tartans are the same.
I have not been able to spot any differences between the setts.
Agreed they appear to be slightly different shades but this could be solely down to colour reproduction on the web page.

[Kinetikat]

It appears to me that both these tartans are the same.
I have not been able to spot any differences between the setts.
Agreed they appear to be slightly different shades but this could be solely down to colour reproduction on the web page.

...really?

They look completely, totally different to me - the first with black or dark blue ground with just a very simple crossing of pale blue and white lines; the second with a ground of quite strong violet blues, a much more typical-looking tartan with adjoining blocks of colour under the criss-cross of lines.

Are you just kidding, or could you perhaps have a blue-green deficiency colour blindness?

[cessna152towser]

They look completely, totally different to me - the first with black or dark blue ground with just a very simple crossing of pale blue and white lines; the second with a ground of quite strong violet blues, a much more typical-looking tartan with adjoining blocks of colour under the criss-cross of lines.

Are you just kidding, or could you perhaps have a blue-green deficiency colour blindness?

If you enlarge the photo of the Dalgliesh tartan you can make out the patterns within the blue and white lines and you can also see the blue line inside the double white lines. The blocks of colour around the crossing of the lines are less clearly differentiated in the Dalgliesh pic but once enlarged they can be vaguely discerned. At first glance the tartans do look quite different but when you enlarge the Dalgliesh pic and study both pics side by side it becomes apparent that they are the same tartan in slightly different hues.