Oettle tartans

[Mike_Oettle]

This is an introduction to three personal tartans I have designed on Scotweb.
All are based on my coat of arms. It is an adaptation of the arms used by my Oettle ancestors (from Württemberg) for centuries, but actually belonging to a family surnamed Oettel, from Franconia.
I kept the field division and colours. The unicorn, instead of being restricted to the red field, is overall. Instead of six stars (three in each blue field) there are now only three. And the stars are estoiles (with wavy arms), unlike the original.
This shield comes from a painting by Ton de Witte, but I have brightened the colours.

For the basic tartan, I used brown to symbolise the South African veld. Blue and red are the field colours, the white represents the unicorn, and the three yellow stripes represent the stars (estoiles).
(Apologies for the large images. I will endeavour to reduce them – had no idea they would be this big.)

Next I removed the brown and replaced it with white to create an arisaid.

Then, after finding that I was particularly fond of setts using both dark and light blue, I designed this as a dress tartan:

The Scottish Register of Tartans accepted the first two for registration, but lacking the funds to pay the fee, I withdrew the application.
I hope to have them all woven in due course.
Regards,
Mike