Dorward/Dogwood
Bands: GRGGBGR · Stripes: DY R DY G DB DY R DY R DY G DB DY R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=955
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1930 — Dorward/Dogwood (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — Dorward/Dogwood (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 955
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2533
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2533
Thread count
R/8 T28 DB38 G30 T18 R6 T/14

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| T | #604000 #604000 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Dorward — ΔT 0.68
- Gleneagles Group Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2107. Earliest known date: 1989 Designed for a range of tartan goods called the Gleneagles Collection. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.79
- Tennant (Yules) — ΔT 1.04
- Fraser Hunting — ΔT 1.15
- Scottish Airports (Corporate) — ΔT 1.18
- Tennant Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1653. Earliest known date: 1930 MacGregor-Hastie made few notes about his sample collection. In December 1967, Captain Tennant wrote to the Scottish Tartans Society, saying, ".. and I have no objection to other Tennants wearing it (Tennant tartan) but their problem will be to get hold of it ... I don't know of any other Tennant tartan and that is why I think my father designed this one." The head of the Tennant family is Lord Glenconner, descended from John Tennant of Blairston, Ayr. (1635). See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.21
- MacDuff Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1654. Earliest known date: 1906 STS records (sic) 'Sett may be quite wrong. (S.S. May 86)' See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.23
- Styrian — ΔT 1.29
- Unidentified Pinafore — ΔT 1.31
- Chindecella Gorse (Kemete Heil) — ΔT 1.33
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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