Quote Originally Posted by rlloyd View Post
I could easily be wrong, but I can't help but think some of the No votes were because they thought this poll was asking for a commitment to buy a length of cloth even before seeing the finished product.
I voted no for a several reasons.
1) this project wouldn't represent my particular faith
2) it seems like a solution looking for a problem -

I don't wish this to seem critical, but the OP is really just one chap looking to tie all of christianity together with one tartan. Now, if the various heads of different christian sects got together and said "We'd LOVE something that would unite us under the broad umbrella of our general belief in God" and this project was proposed, it would have a purpose. It WOULD represent that wish of the various factions to be united.

Without that situation, or at least a fairly large non-denominational christian group to sponsor it (at which point the tartan would essentially represent the group - ie be a corporate tartan), it's basically just a personal tartan.

3) The situation is sort of "inorganic", if you will. The vote is asking people to support a "mystery product". I have full faith that, should the project go forward, Matt would do an amazing job designing the tartan. But you're asking people to support "Whatever is behind door #1".

Someone early on in the thread mentioned the R'lyeh Sett that was recently commissioned from Dalgliesh. The process you're proposing here is the diametric opposite of what happened with that tartan.

We were posting in a thread about our shared interest of H.P. Lovecraft's C'thulhu mythos when someone suggested a "group" to share info. I whipped up a tartan design and posted it, half-jokingly suggesting that if we have a group on a kilt forum, we should have a tartan to represent the group. It apparently resonated with said people in the discussion, as we ordered quite a bit of it. :cthulhusmiley:


I do wish you the very best of luck in producing this tartan, but I'm afraid that I'm unable to lend support to the project.

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