German National (US) (Fashion)
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 GRKRKRKRKRKR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1095
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Aug. 1995 — German National (US) (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Declared in August 1995 by Douglas C. Ikelman as a general tartan for Americans of German extraction. It is not Germany's official tartan - to be that it would require the German government's approval. Lochcarron swatch from 2002. Design (the colours are those of the German flag) assisted by Peter MacDonald and Bob Martin and first length handwoven by Peter MacDonald of Crieff, Scotland. July 2005: Douglas Ikleman has requested of the German Consulate in the US that they recognise, note or adopt this tartan but they have declined saying that they don't "wish to go on record as approving one product over another.". - 01/07/1996 — German National (register-of-tartans, record)
Declared in August 1997 by Douglas C. Ikelman as a general tartan for Americans of German extraction. It is not Germany's official tartan - to be that it would require the German government's approval. Lochcarron swatch from 2002. Design (the colours are those of the German flag) assisted by Peter MacDonald and Bob Martin and first length handwoven by Peter MacDonald of Crieff, Scotland. July 2005: Douglas Ikleman has requested of the German Consulate in the US that they recognise, note or adopt this tartan but they have declined saying that they don't 'wish to go on record as approving one product over another'. - undated — Ikelman No. 5 (German National) (weddslist, record)
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
- Aug. 1995 (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: 1337
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1095
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1095
Thread count
R/32 K4 R4 K4 R26 K24 R4 K24 R26 K26 R4 Y/4
One full sett is 328 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s12/r16k2r2k2r13k12r2k12r13k13r2y2~x2/