Manx National District Tartan Tartan Number: 185. Earliest known date: pre 2003 These are the specifications supplied by the designer. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

In pattern BGRYBBW.

This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=185

Thread count

P/4 G12 R2 Y2 DB6 B20 LN/2 Sett

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
B#2888C4 #2888C4B #2A418A0.21
DB#202060 #202060B #2A418A0.11
G#006818 #006818G #0061000.02
LN#E0E0E0 #E0E0E0W #F7F7F70.07
P#780078 #780078B #2A418A0.17
R#C80000 #C80000R #CC00000.01
Y#E8C000 #E8C000Y #F2BF000.02

Sample pattern

Tartan detail

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. Manx National — ΔT 0.68
  2. Manx National District Tartan Tartan Number: 186. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Thread count of the sample donated by Dr. D.G. Teall in 1987, when the cloth was commercially available on the island. It differs slightly from the sett recorded by Stewart in 1959, but the design is essentially the same. D C Stewart's Nomindex (Name Index) notes. Th is seven-colour tartan was designed by Miss Patricia 'Paddy' McQaid as the Manx National Tartan at the instigation in 1958 of the Rt. Hon the Lord Sempill who was Chairman of Ellynyn ny Gael - a Manx Gaelic Society. The colours were explained as follows: light blue of the sky, dark blue of the sea, green of the hills & valleys, white of the cottages, purple of the heather, gold of the gorse in bloom and reddish brown of the bracken. The tartan was registered with the Tartans Society on 3rd November 1959 and Paddy McQuaid held the sole rights to production for some years. The tartan was very popular with the Royal Family of the day. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.75
  3. O'Reilly (Estimated threadcount) — ΔT 1.15
  4. Fremsaeter, Jenny (Personal) — ΔT 1.16
  5. Royal Air Force Lossiemouth — ΔT 1.21
  6. RAF Leuchars — ΔT 1.24
  7. Glen Lyon (Fashion) — ΔT 1.29
  8. Manx National — ΔT 1.30
  9. Silversea — ΔT 1.30
  10. Porteous — ΔT 1.36

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.

Manx NationalManx National District Tartan Tartan Number: 186. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Thread count of the sample donated by Dr. D.G. Teall in 1987, when the cloth was commercially available on the island. It differs slightly from the sett recorded by Stewart in 1959, but the design is essentially the same. D C Stewart's Nomindex (Name Index) notes. Th is seven-colour tartan was designed by Miss Patricia 'Paddy' McQaid as the Manx National Tartan at the instigation in 1958 of the Rt. Hon the Lord Sempill who was Chairman of Ellynyn ny Gael - a Manx Gaelic Society. The colours were explained as follows: light blue of the sky, dark blue of the sea, green of the hills & valleys, white of the cottages, purple of the heather, gold of the gorse in bloom and reddish brown of the bracken. The tartan was registered with the Tartans Society on 3rd November 1959 and Paddy McQuaid held the sole rights to production for some years. The tartan was very popular with the Royal Family of the day. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015O'Reilly (Estimated threadcount)Fremsaeter, Jenny (Personal)Royal Air Force LossiemouthRAF LeucharsGlen Lyon (Fashion)Manx NationalSilverseaPorteous

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