State Tartans?

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Here's the most complete list of state tartans I've found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._state_tartans

It's not in the Zaczek book but the Salt Lake City tartan is, "based on the colours of Utah University".

I'm almost certain they must be referring to the Salt Lake County tartan.
Salt Lake City does not have an official tartan. Given the mistakes you've already documented from that book, this seems par for the course.
Also, there is not and has never been a "Utah University". I assume they mean "University of Utah".

University of Utah's colors are primarily red, with white and some black.
The Salt Lake County tartan matches that: https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...tails?ref=3643

I can't find anything in writing (besides your book) to support the claim that the Salt Lake County tartan colors are based on University of Utah's colors.
But looking at it, I have to assume it's true. It's very red, lined with white and a touch of black.

With some of the tartan-making programs that exist nowadays you can get a pretty good idea of what a tartan would look like woven. With some of the programs you can come up with custom colours so you can play with various palettes.

Oh, that's a fun idea. I don't think the design is entirely bad. Those colors just feel like they're overly saturated to the point of inducing nausea.
What program(s) do you recommend?


Also, for anyone who's curious, Utah's official tartan is specified in Title 63G, Chaper 1, Part 6, Section 601(6)

(6) Utah's state centennial tartan, which honors the first Scots known to have been in Utah and those Utahns of Scottish heritage, shall have a pattern or repeating-half-sett of white-2, blue-6, red-6, blue-4, red-6, green-18, red-6, and white-4 to represent the tartan worn anciently by the Logan and Skene clans, with the addition of a white stripe.

source: https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title63G/C...3G-1-S601.html