Dewar's Highlander
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 GKGKBYBKGKGKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=926
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1988 — Dewar's Highlander (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on the MacNab tartan. - January 1988 — Dewars Highlander (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Kinloch Anderson - swatch from Dewars public relations agent in 1989. The Dewars whisky label incorporated a Gordon Highlander Pipe Major and in this tartan the blue and green were switched to avoid copying the Gordon and creating any controversy. Woven by Peter MacArthur of Hamilton.Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. Green normally darker than this. Dewars are understandably insistent that this is their corporate tartan and will remain exclusively so (Feb. 2009 - via Kinloch Anderson).
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
- 1988 (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: 926
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 694
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 694
Thread count
G/56 K6 G7 K6 G7 K35 DB45 LY6 DB45 K35 G45 K6 G/6
One full sett is 548 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s13/g56k6g7k6g7k35db45ly6db45k35g45k6g6/