Dewar, Robert Alexander
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 GBKBGGGBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10006
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2009 Designed by Neil Dewar for his wedding in July 2009. Three kilt were ordered. The tartan was based on the Dewar Highlander corporate tartan which is often taken to be the clan tartan. This pattern puts the yellow stripe back on the green in a traditional format.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 19/02/2009 — Dewar, Robert Alexander (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed by Neil Dewar for a special occasion. The tartan is based on the Dewar’s Highlander Corporate tartan and is named after the head of the family Mr Robert Alexander Dewar. - 2009 — Dewar, Robert Alexander (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Neil Dewar for his wedding in July 2009 to Denise Rose Magee. Three kilts were ordered. The tartan was based on the Dewar Highlander corporate tartan which is often mistakenly taken to be the clan tartan. This pattern puts the yellow stripe back on the green in a traditional format. The tartan is named after the head of the family Robert Alexander Magee. Any Dewars wishing to wear the tartan are requested to contact Robert Dewar via info@house-of-tartan.co.uk - 2009 — Robert Dewar Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 2009 — Robert Dewar Personal 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
- 19/02/2009 (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: 10006
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10006
Thread count
DG/30 DB16 K10 DB16 DG30 Y6 DG30 DB16 K/10
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/dg15db8k5db8dg15y3dg15db8k5~x2/