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
Bands: BGRYBBW · Stripes: DP G R LY DB T W DP G R LY DB T W
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=186
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
LN/4 B60 DB24 Y4 R4 G32 P/8
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #6490BC #6490BC | B #2A418A | 0.24 |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| P | #780078 #780078 | B #2A418A | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- 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 — ΔT 0.75
- Manx National — ΔT 0.77
- Manx National — ΔT 0.92
- O'Reilly (Estimated threadcount) — ΔT 1.07
- WCWM 3947 — ΔT 1.10
- Scout Mapping Service #1 (Corporate) — ΔT 1.18
- Hek Family (Sunningdale, Berwick on Tweed) — ΔT 1.19
- Glen Lyon (Fashion) — ΔT 1.22
- Highland, Blue (Corporate) — ΔT 1.23
- MacLeroy and Troine 1987 — ΔT 1.25
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 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.
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