Manx Laxey (Blue)
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 WGGBWW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2818
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1978 — Manx Laxey (Blue) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed and woven by Robert Wood, owner of St George's Woollen Mill in Laxey after the weaving of the Manx National tartan was taken out of his hands by Miss Patricia Mcquaid after a difference of opinion. This is now the only tartan woven by that mill. 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. Presented by Dr. D.G. Teall in 1981 He was a Past President of the Scottish Tartans Society. - 1978 — Laxey Manx Blue (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed and woven by Robert Wood, the late owner of St George's Woollen Mill in Laxey after the weaving of the Manx National tartan was taken out of his hands by Miss Patricia McQuaid after a difference of opinion. This is now the only tartan woven by that mill. Notes from Bert McBainLee in May 2008 add "In the absence of the true 7-colour National tartan (#185) this is being sold as the 'Manx tartan' and used in souvenirs, caps, kilts etc." The mill is now owned and run by Robert's son John (Nov. 2008). 2014 - situation unchanged. 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.
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
- 1978 (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: 2818
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 202
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 202
Thread count
LB/8 DG32 Y4 DP14 LB56 W/8
One full sett is 228 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s6/w4lb28dp7y2dg16lb4~x2/