Bermuda Plaid (1947) (District)
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 WBWGBRW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=696
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1962 The original Bermuda Plaid was designed by Peter Macarthur Limited of Hamilton, Scotland in 1962 and was marketed on the island by Trimmingham Bros., Ltd. The colours represent the Sky, the Sea, the Coral and the Cedar trees which grow on the island. Bermuda is a British Dependant Territory. (Source: District Tartans, P Smith and G Teall, 1992)
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1947 — Bermuda Plaid (1947) (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Commissioned in 1947 and marketed on the island by Trimmongham Bros. Ltd, this was the first Bermuda tartan designed in conjunction with Peter MacArthure Ltd of Hamilton, Scotland. - 01/01/1962 — Bermuda Plaid (1962) (register-of-tartans, record)
The original Bermuda Plaid was designed by Peter Macarthur Limited of Hamilton, Scotland in 1962 and was marketed on the island by Trimmingham Bros Ltd. The colours represent the sky, the sea, the coral and the cedar trees which grow on the island. It was soon to be superseded by the Bermuda Blue STR #253. - 1962 — Bermuda Plaid District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Bermuda, Plaid (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1947 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 254
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 696
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 696
Thread count
LB/66 R16 DB24 G24 LB16 DB4 LB/16
One full sett is 250 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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.
ID: /variants/s7/lb33r8db12g12lb8db2lb8~x2/