Cooke (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 GKRGBWK.
Part of the Cooke tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=751
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1993 Designed for Mr Bob Cooke and his family. Cookes were seafarers from the West Coast of Scotland and Ireland. Some including the designer, can trace forebears to Liverpool and the North West coast of England. The colours of the tartan reflect the seas, the skys and the heart of the sailor.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1993 — Cooke (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for Mr Bob Cooke and his family. Cookes were seafarers from the West Coast of Scotland and Ireland. Some including the designer, can trace forebears to Liverpool and the North West coast of England. The colours of the tartan reflect the seas, the skys and the heart of the sailor. - circa 1993 — Cooke (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Said to be designed by Bob Cooke of Australia whose forebears were mariners from the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland. Colours said to reflect the seas, skies and the heart of the sailor (sic). - 1993 — Cooke Family 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
- 1993 (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: 751
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2130
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2130
Thread count
K/24 LB8 DB48 G32 R20 K8 G/12
One full sett is 268 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s7/k6lb2db12g8r5k2g3~x4/