Nevada State
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 BRBGBYBYW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3108
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 14/03/2001 — Nevada State (register-of-tartans, record)
Adopted as the Nevada State tartan on the 14th March 2001. Designed by California born Rick Zygmunt Pawlowski ('Ziggy') and officially adopted by the state in March 2001. The blue and silver represent Nevada's state colours. Red is for the Virgin Valley black fire opal and the red rock formations of southern Nevada; yellow is for the sagebrush, the state flower; white is for the name of the state - Nevada is Spanish and means snowy or snow clad, a reference to the US Sierra Nevada mountain range that runs down the eastern border of California, overlooking Nevada. Other symbolic references are detailed in the US Senate Bill No. 347. Design input also from Alistair Buchan and Leah Robertson, Lochcarron of Scotland. - 2001 — Nevada State (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by California born Rick Zygmunt Pawlowski ('Ziggy') and officially adopted by the state in May 2001.The blue and silver represent Nevada's state colours. Red is for the Virgin Valley black fire opal, the official state precious gemstone and the red rock formations of southern Nevada. Yellow is for the sagebrush, the state flower; white is for the name of the state - Nevada is Spanish and means snowy or snow clad and is a reference to the US Sierra Nevada mountain range that runs down the eastern border of California, overlooking Nevada. Other symbolic references are made in the US Senate Bill No. 347. Design input also from Alistair Buchan and Leah Robertson of the weavers, Lochcarron of Scotland. Lochcarron swatch.
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
- 14/03/2001 (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: 3108
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3091
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2947
Thread count
DB/64 R8 DB8 DY8 DB18 LR18 DB8 LR32 W/14
One full sett is 278 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s9/db32r4db4dy4db9lr9db4lr16w7~x2/