Wormeck (2013) Germany
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 BGRKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10714
Provenance
Earliest known date: 11 October 2012 This tartan was created by the designer for his wedding and for all those with the surname Wormeck who wish to wear it. The colours are taken from the national and regional flags of Germany and former Prussia, the province of Schleswig-Holstein, Scotland, the Czech Republic and Sweden, all places significant to the designer and his family.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 08/10/2012 — Wormeck (2013) Germany (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was created for all those bearing the name Wormeck in Europe and especially Germany, where there is a new branch of the Wormeck family with its roots on the Baltic shores of Northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein), and including the old branch of the Wormeck family which has its roots in former Western Prussia, where the family lived until 1945. The Wormeck (2013) Germany tartan may also be used and worn by members of the Sovadina/Sovadinová family living in and nearby the city of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic, as Eliška Sovadinová and the designer, Marcus Wormeck, married in 2013, uniting the two families. The designer and his wife live in Kiel in Northern Germany. Those bearing the name Wormek, a spelling variation of Wormeck, may also wear and use this tartan as they share the same family roots. - 11 October 2012 — Wormeck (2013) German Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 08/10/2012 (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: 10714
Thread count
DB/8 Y8 R66 K60 W/4
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s5/db4y4r33k30w2~x2/