Manx Heritage
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 BGRGRBRGRGRWRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2816
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1996 — Manx Heritage (register-of-tartans, record)
Produced by the Manx Museum in 1998 as a commemorative and promotional tartan. Manx refers to the Isle of Man, a large (221 sq miles) island in the Irish Sea which is a self governing Crown dependency with a population of about 70,000. The inhabitants are of Celtic origin. - 1998 — Manx Heritage (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Produced by the Manx Museum in 1998 as a commemorative and promotional tartan. Manx refers to the Isle of Man, a large (221 sq miles) island in the Irish Sea which is a self governing Crown dependency with a population of about 70,000. The inhabitants are of Celtic origin. The Scottish Tartans Society was involved with its design and the colour siginificance is as follows: Red for the sandstone, green for the headland hills, dark blue for the sea, light blue for the sky and grey for the rocks & cliffs. The tartan was only available from the Manx Museum and other Manx Heritage sites with shops but sales were insufficient and the tartan 'died' (Albert McBain-Lee, May 2008). - undated — Manx Heritage (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1996 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 2816
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2679
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2679
Thread count
N/6 DG38 R4 DG4 R4 DB20 R34 DG4 R4 DG4 R6 LB4 R6 LB/6
One full sett is 276 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) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s14/n3dg19r2dg2r2db10r17dg2r2dg2r3lb2r3lb3~x2/