The tartan includes various colors representing different parts of the state. Nevada becomes the 14th state with an official tartan and it will be registered with the Scottish Tartan Society. Sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, the proposed state tartan includes the colors blue, white, silver and red. Blue and silver are both state colors. The blue also represents the water of Lake Tahoe and the color of the Mountain Bluebird, the official state bird.
Silver also is the official state mineral.
Red represents the fire opal, the official state gemstone, and yellow is the color of the state flower, the sagebrush. White represents the snowcaps of the Sierra. The tartan includes four blue lines representing the state s four main rivers, the Colorado, Truckee, Humboldt and Walker. There also are eight lines that intersect on the tartan. Titus pointed out that eight times eight is 64.