Bowie (Dalgety) Family Tartan Tartan Number: 434. Earliest known date: 1970-80 The name Bowie or Buie is associated with Argyllshire and the islands of Jura, Uist and Bute. The design comes from J. Dalgety, a weaving manufacturer who specializes in tartan. The date of the tartan is assumed. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Bands: BRBRBWBWGRGYG · Stripes: DB R DB R DB W DR W G R G LY G DB R DB R DB W DR W G R G LY G
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 13 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=434
Thread count
DB/16 R4 DB6 R8 DB26 LN4 DR26 LN4 G26 R8 G8 Y4 G/16
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 |
| DR | #480800 #480800 | B #2A418A | 0.24 |
| 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 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Bowie (white lines) (Name) — ΔT 0.62
- Bowie — ΔT 0.80
- North of Scotland Tartan Army — ΔT 0.81
- Watt (Personal) — ΔT 0.82
- Kinloch Anderson Heather (Corporate) — ΔT 0.83
- Lee Cox (Personal) — ΔT 0.90
- Langston (Personal) — ΔT 0.90
- Festival Celtique de Qubecc — ΔT 0.91
- MacDonald of Clanranald #3 — ΔT 0.93
- Festival Celtique de Québec — ΔT 0.96
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 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/s13/db8r2db3r4db13w2dr13w2g13r4g4ly2g8~x2/