Texas Blue Bonnet (US State) Tartan
- Name of Tartan:
- Texas Blue Bonnet (US State)
- ITI Number:
- 852
- Category:
- American State
- Designer / Source:
- MacRoberts, June
- Date:
- 1983
- Slog:
- GRB:YWA
- Colour Sequence:
- GRBWRWAWAWY
- Thread Count:
- G20 R4 B40 W4 R4 W4 A40 W4 A40 W4 Y4
- Notes:
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Registered with the STS 15.Jan 1985. Designed by June Prescott McRoberts (1922-1999), proprietor of the ‘Thistles & Bluebonnets’ store in Salado, Texas. The tartan was adopted as the Sesquicentennial Tartan and was officialy adopted as the Texas State Tartan on 25th May 1989. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Helpful STS notes add: The colours of the Texas Bluebonnet district tartan owe their selection to the bluebonnet flower, a member of the lupin family, which is widespread in many parts of Texas. The flower changes colour with the passing of time, the ‘brim’ becoming flecked with wine red.
Samples in STA Dalgety Collection + Lochcarron swatch. Blues too bright..
