Tartan Design Question

[OC Richard]

the colors are red, white, blue & gold

Very nice tartans could be designed with those colours.

A question: are these colours equal and on their own? Or are they grouped?

What I mean is, the colours could be red, white, blue, and gold. Or they could be red & white, and blue & gold, or grouped in some other way. This makes a difference in how I would approach the design.

And the colours could appear equally, or they could appear in a specific proportion. It depends on how the organisation typically displays the colours. If the original is, say, a crest, the tartan designer would need to see it.

I quickly Googled and found an association in Stamford CT which has a logo using those very colours. In that, the white appears on a red field, and the yellow appears on a blue field.

Here's a very quick crude sketch based on those colours. Adding a black line here or there increases its "punch". Also two shades of blue could be used to make it nicer.