Iowa
A tartan of the Iowa family.
Its design is pattern RGGKGBKW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.
Designed for Iowa with colours symbolising sky, fields, soil, snow, barns, earth and corn; state-adopted 2004.
The Iowa tartan is recorded as a single sett.
| Sett | ΔTartan | Thread count | Threads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | R/8 Y6 G24 K32 DY10 DB40 K8 W/4 | 252 | 2004 | |
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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.