Hawaii
Its design is pattern RGGBWGRW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Designed 1997 by Douglas Herring, winning Caledonian Society of Hawaii contest for state tartan; colours symbolise monarchy, lava, soil, plants, sky, ocean.
The Hawaii tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | LB/16 R4 Y4 LB48 DO16 DG40 Y4 R/12 | 260 | 1997 | |
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Also known as
This tartan is also recorded under:
- Hawaiian
Nearest tartans
The nearest NAMED TARTANS — each represented by its master sett — by ΔTartan distance from this tartan's master, which leads the table so the swatches line up against it.











Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 10814 named tartans (their master setts) 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 master cloth. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.