After a long awaited debut, the Pack Plaid makes a splash on North Carolina State University's campus and beyond. The official NC State Tartan was designed by Kathleen Kelly ‘14. She was in her first semester of graduate school at the College of Textiles when she designed the winning entry in NC State’s Pack Plaid contest. According to Dr. Cynthia Istook, who created and implemented the Pack Plaid contest, Kelly’s design was the clear winner. “Kathleen actually had more than one design chosen to be in the top four,” said Istook. “Her winning tartan design was the one that came out on top with well more than 50 percent of the votes.” Her design, a sophisticated pattern in black, gray, red and white inspired by menswear, is now listed as the “North Carolina State University — Pack Plaid” in the Scottish Registry of Deeds, the official Scottish register of tartans.
https://textiles.ncsu.edu/news/2017/10/pack-plaid-nc-states-official-tartan-came/
