alma mater tartan

**Kilts_Knave** · 5th September 05, 04:02 PM

Something I was asked in an IM got me thinking: I wonder if UCLA has a tartan? Well, no, but Univ. of Calif. Riverside does --and they are in the UCAL colors blue and gold. Check out this tartan:

I would love to have a kilt made of this tartan!

http://www.pipeband.ucr.edu/

Any kilt makers have any of this stuff? (Oh my God I sound like a junkie!)

**Riverkilt** · 5th September 05, 05:30 PM

Looks sharp. Have you tried contacting the UCLA Bookstore. The university bookstores usually control all the trademark type stuff. They might know...if you ask for the bookstore manager, not the students working there part time.

And...

Always wondered "if" or "why not?" Fraternities don't have tartans. Particularly mine - Alpha Sigma Phi - if there are any kilted brothers out there.

Ron

**Big Paul** · 5th September 05, 06:37 PM

That tartan would work for U of M also!

**Sir Robert** · 6th September 05, 05:53 AM

My alma mater's colors are purple and orange, no I don't think so!

**Barb T.** · 6th September 05, 07:14 AM

Most of these kinds of specialty tartans aren't readily available from a Scottish Mill and are woven in batches for the people who order them (like the Riverside Pipe Band). So, your best bet is to contact the people who are currently wearing the tartan to find out where they either got the tartan or their kilts. If you find the tartan and decide to get it, just be sure that you ask what the weight is.

The scan of the tartan itself is beautiful, but it sure doesn't look much like the picture of the Riverside band kilts!

Barb