Manx Laxey (Red)
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 RYBGWRBGW.
Part of the Manx Laxey tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2819
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1981 — Manx Laxey (Red) (register-of-tartans, record)
Yet another Isle of Man tartan. Data from Dr D.G.Teall. 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. Date from D.C. Stewartt's NOMINDEX. - 1981 — Manx Laxey, Red (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Yet another Isle of Man tartan. Data from Dr D.G.Teall. 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. Date from D C Stewartt's NOMINDEX. According to Bert McBain-Lee (a retired kiltmaker & tartan historian on the IOM) in May 2008, there is now only one tartan sold on the IOM now and that is Laxey Manx Blue at No. 202.
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
- 1981 (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: 2819
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1721
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1721
Thread count
R/48 LY4 N6 DY4 W20 R8 N6 DY6 W/4
One full sett is 160 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #604000 #604000 | oklch(39.8% 0.083 76.8) |
| LY | #E8C000 #E8C000 | oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7) |
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/s9/r24ly2n3dy2w10r4n3dy3w2x2ly3307090-dy1603076/