Hawaiian
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 RGWBGGRGGBWGRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1626
Provenance
Earliest known date: September 1997 Designed in 1997 by Douglas Herring on O'ahu, a member of the Hawaiian Handweavers Hui. It was the winning entry in a contest run by The Caledonian Society of Hawaii to select the State Tartan. Although this beautiful design has yet to be recognized by the Hawaiian state, it is registered in Scotland. Red and yellow symbolise the Monarchy and the fire and lava from which the Hawaiian Islands arise. Brown - the soil. Green - the plant life. Blue - the sky and deep ocean.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/1997 — Hawaiian (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in 1997 by Douglas Herring of the 'Hawaiian Handweavers Hui.' Red & yellow symbolise the Monarchy and the fire and lava from which the Hawaiian Islands arise. Brown embodies the rock once it cooled and started to turn into soil. Green represents the plant life of the islands. Blue indicates the sky and deep ocean. - September 1997 — Hawaii (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed in 1997 by Douglas Herring on O'ahu, member of the 'Hawaiian Handweavers Hui.' It was the winning entry in a contest run by The Caledonian Society of Hawai?i to select the Hawai?i State Tartan. It is registered in Scotland.' Red & yellow symbolise the Monarchy and the fire and lava from which the Hawaiian Islands arise. Brown embodies the rock once it cooled and started to turn into soil. Green represents the plant life of the islands. Blue indicates the sky and deep ocean. This now appears to be official: "In 2008 the Hawaii State Legislature passed a resolution designating April 6 each year as Tartan Day and recognizing the Hawaii Tartan." Only woven by Celtic Craft Centre, Edinburgh and only in 16oz. - September 1997 — Hawaiian American District 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
- 01/09/1997 (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: 1626
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5163
Thread count
LB/16 R4 Y4 LB48 DO16 DG40 Y4 R12 Y4 DG40 DO16 LB48 Y4 R/4
One full sett is 500 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| 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/s8/lb4r1y1lb12do4dg10y1r3~x4/