Nocken Blue Modern Tartan (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 BKBKBKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10745
Provenance
Earliest known date: 30/11/2012 Designed by Peter Nocken and Jessica Brosch for family members to share their love of all things Scottish and to preserve the memories of the wonderful times they have enjoyed in Scotland. The colours are the family's favourites, with blue representing the sea and sky; the two broad white stripes represent the two sons, and the light blue stripe in between them represents the daughter of the family; the thin white and black stripes in the centre of the large blue area represent the parents as origin and centre of the family.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 30/11/2012 — Nocken Blue Modern Tartan (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Peter Nocken and Jessica Brosch for family members to share their love of all things Scottish and to preserve the memories of the wonderful times they have enjoyed in Scotland. The colours are the family's favourites, with blue representing the sea and sky; the two broad white stripes represent the two sons, and the light blue stripe in between them represents the daughter of the family; the thin white and black stripes in the centre of the large blue area represent the parents as origin and centre of the family. - 30/11/2012 — Nocken (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Registration notes: Designed by Peter Nocken and Jessica Brosch for family members to share their love of all things Scottish and to preserve the memories of the wonderful times they have enjoyed in Scotland. The colours are the family's favourites, with blue representing the sea and sky; the two broad white stripes represent the two sons, and the light blue stripe in between them represents the daughter of the family; the thin white and black stripes in the centre of the large blue area represent the parents as origin and centre of the family. For the personal use of Peter Nocken, his immediate family and descendants only and may only be woven by mills in the UK with permission of Peter Nocken or his descendants. - 30/11/2012 — Nocken Blue 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
- 30/11/2012 (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: 10745
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10745
Thread count
LB/6 K12 W4 K12 DB4 K4 DB64 K4 N/2
One full sett is 216 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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.
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