Isle of Man

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 BYWGYGWGRYRWRYRGWGYGWYBR.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 24 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5318

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
2017-01-06 (dataset default)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

T/44 LY8 W6 G14 LYi4 G8 W4 G18 O12 LYi4 O8 W4 O8 LYi4 O12 G18 W4 G8 LYi4 G14 W6 LY8 T44 R/4

One full sett is 488 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#2888C4 #2888C4oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5)
T#5C8CA8 #5C8CA8oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
LY#A08858 #A08858oklch(63.7% 0.071 84.0)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
LY#FCCC00 #FCCC00oklch(86.2% 0.176 91.5)

Sample pattern

T/44 LY8 W6 G14 LYi4 G8 W4 G18 O12 LYi4 O8 W4 O8 LYi4 O12 G18 W4 G8 LYi4 G14 W6 LY8 T44 R/4 tartan

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.

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