Klappert Original (Odsherred, 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 RKBKBKGKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10475
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2011 This tartan was designed to commemorate the original family of Klapperts in Denmark. The colours chosen represent the Klappert family heritage and their enviroment. The 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 Danish origins. The brown is a reference to the longships which brought the Vikings to Scotland, representing the connection between the Nordic and Scottish cultures. This tartan may only be worn/used by members/descendants of the original Klappert family from Odsherred in Denmark.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 12/08/2011 — Klappert Original (Odsherred, Denmark) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed to commemorate the original family of Klapperts in Denmark. The colours chosen represent the Klappert family heritage and their enviroment. The 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 Danish origins. The brown is a reference to the longships which brought the Vikings to Scotland, representing the connection between the Nordic and Scottish cultures. This tartan may only be worn/used by members/descendants of the original Klappert family from Odsherred in Denmark. - 17th August 2011 — Klappert Original (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was designed to commemorate the original family of Klapperts in Denmark. The colours chosen represent the Klappert family heritage and their enviroment. The 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 Danish origins. The brown is a reference to the longships which brought the Vikings to Scotland, representing the connection between the Nordic and Scottish cultures. This tartan may only be worn/used by members/descendants of the original Klappert family from Odsherred in Denmark. This tartan may only be worn/used by members/descendants of the original Klappert family from Odsherred in Denmark. - 2011 — Klappert Original 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
- 12/08/2011 (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: 10475
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10475
Thread count
R/2 K2 N60 K12 N2 K12 DY16 K2 R/2
One full sett is 216 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/r1k1n30k6n1k6dy8k1r1~x2/