Bahamas District Tartan Tartan Number: 2089. Earliest known date: 1966 Designed by Gordon Rees of the Scottish Shop in Nassau, now owned by Colin and Beverley Honnes. It was intended to perpetuate the memory of early Scottish settlers in the Bahamas including Thompson, Sands, Forsythe, Munroe, Johnston, Russell, Christie, Roberts, Kelly, MacKinney, Saunders, Malcolm, Crawford, MacPherson, Clark and Rae. The tartan was formally approved by the Bahamas Government in 1966. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern BGWRGBYB.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2089
Thread count
DB/12 Y4 DB44 G14 R4 LN22 G22 DB/6
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Loyalhanna — ΔT 0.56
- Thomson Dress (Blue) — ΔT 0.79
- Bahamas — ΔT 0.92
- MacIntyre, Inglis — ΔT 0.98
- Scotsburn Croft — ΔT 0.99
- Seaford House — ΔT 1.00
- Ayrshire — ΔT 1.04
- MacTavish Dress — ΔT 1.04
- Loch Ness (Fashion) — ΔT 1.07
- Afternoon Tea / Earl Grey — ΔT 1.08
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s8/db6ly2db22g7r2w11g11db3~x2/