Lady Boys of Bangkok (Corporate)
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 YRRRWY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7142
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2005 — Lady Boys of Bangkok (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Despite the dubious name this is a dance troupe that performed in kilts of this tartan at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2005. - undated — Lady Boys of Bangkok (register-of-tartans, record)
Despite the dubious name this is a dance troupe that performed in kilts of this tartan at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2005.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2005 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5075
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7142
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3069
Thread count
LY/23 R22 O52 R8 W6 LYi/18
One full sett is 217 threads.

Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LY | #BC8C00 #BC8C00 | oklch(66.8% 0.137 84.1) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #A08858 #A08858 | oklch(63.7% 0.071 84.0) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| 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/s6/ly23r22o52r8w6lyi18~ly2503076-lyi2705081/