Robbins
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 BBBBBG.
Part of the Robbins tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3517
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Robbins (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society has this as Clan/Family but it is thought that Pendleton usually designed just Fashion. Count taken from a wool shirt in single thread weave. Info from Dr Phil D Smith Jr (an American Tartanologist). This is the same as #739 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) - Robinson. - pre 2002 — Robbins (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Tartan Society has this as Clan/Family but it is thought that Pendleton usually designed just Fashion tartans. Count taken from a wool shirt in single thread weave. Info from Phil Smith. This is the same as #739 - Robinson - which has a very doubtful pedigree. Regarded for the time being as 'Name.'
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
- 2002 (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: 3517
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 412
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 412
Thread count
DB/8 DR24 DB8 DR24 DB48 G/8
One full sett is 224 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
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/s6/db1dr3db1dr3db6g1~x8/