Hose color: bottle vs. tartan green

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Different vendors may vary, but in my experiance Bottle Green is always a pretty dark blue-grey green tone, like a wine 'bottle', where Tartan Green, sometimes Loden or Forest, is lighter.

This lewis hose color chart shows them pretty well.

http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/hose_lewis.htm

We call our dark green "bottle green" because a) when we first began carrying the Lewis hose, that's what the color was identified as in the inventory, and b) we believe most of our customers are more familiar with that term than "tartan green."

However, these days that color is identified as "tartan green" when we order. The color hasn't changed any. Just the name.

So see my above post about those two terms being used interchangably.