Manhattan Ethnic
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 RBYRYBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2803
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1999 — Manhattan Ethnic (register-of-tartans, record)
The colours are supposed to be the skin colours of the ethnic groups found in Manhattan. Designed by J Morgan and Suzanne H Bocanegra of New York. See also Manhattan Financial. Pink is supposed to be Caucasian flesh colour. - 1999 — Manhattan Ethnic (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
The colours are supposed to be the skin colours of the ethnic groups found in Manhattan. Work needs to be done on the colours! Designed by J Morgan Puett and Suzanne H Bolanegra of New York. See also Manhattan Financial. Pink is supposed to be Caucasian flesh colour!
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
- 1999 (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: 2803
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2604
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2604
Thread count
LY/72 DO30 LY18 R62 LYi10 DO8 R/32
One full sett is 360 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| LY | #BC8C00 #BC8C00 | oklch(66.8% 0.137 84.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #A08858 #A08858 | oklch(63.7% 0.071 84.0) |
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/s7/ly36do15ly9r31lyi5do4r16x2ly2503076-lyi2705081/