Klappert, Denmark (Personal)
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 BKBGRGBKB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10468
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2011 This tartan was designed to celebrate the advent of the third generation of Klapperts in Denmark. The Klappert family name is currently only shared by four people in Denmark, all closely related. The family has visited Scotland frequently and has embraced the Scottish culture. This tartan represents the family's love of Scotland. The colours reflect the family's heritage and enviroment: black symbolises the dark Nordic winter and the dark grey is the cold sea which embraces the vast Danish coastline. The dark red symbolises this family's foundation in Denmark. The brown is a reference to the longships which carried the Vikings to Scotland.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 02/08/2011 — Klappert, Denmark (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed to celebrate the advent of the third generation of Klapperts in Denmark. The Klappert family name is currently only shared by four people in Denmark, all closely related. The family has visited Scotland frequently and has embraced the Scottish culture. This tartan represents the family's love of Scotland. The colours reflect the family's heritage and enviroment: black symbolises the dark Nordic winter and the dark grey is the cold sea which embraces the vast Danish coastline. The dark red symbolises this family's foundation in Denmark. The brown is a reference to the longships which carried the Vikings to Scotland. - 11th August 2011 — Klappert (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was designed to celebrate the advent of the third generation of Klapperts in Denmark. The Klappert family name is currently only shared by four people in Denmark, all closely related. The family has visited Scotland frequently and has embraced the Scottish culture. This tartan represents the family's love of Scotland. The colours reflect the family's heritage and enviroment: black symbolises the dark Nordic winter and the dark grey is the cold sea which embraces the vast Danish coastline. The dark red symbolises this family's foundation in Denmark. The brown is a reference to the longships which carried the Vikings to Scotland. - 2011 — Klappert 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
- 02/08/2011 (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: 10468
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10468
Thread count
N/32 K26 N14 DY6 R4 DY6 N14 K26 N/32
One full sett is 256 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s9/n16k13n7dy3r2dy3n7k13n16~x2/