Rocky - Dude! Sorry! What can I say? I'm hell on those internet search engines! LOL!!!

Your answers match my expectations, but I always like to ask just in case. I mean, you never know. Heck, Just the other day I saw a fellow newbie post that he wanted a kilt, and one was GIVEN to him on the spot. Go figure, right?

My present thought is that I'm going to start small and build up. I may end up getting one of those "specials" from you yet, but it likely won't be in 2014.

Hypothetically, if I wanted a "universal" tartan kilt that looked the most Red (or closest to the tartans I referred to above) - among those you offer, would that be Prince of Wales/Duke of Rothesay?


Quote Originally Posted by Riverkilt View Post
Having been born at Craig Army Air Corps Base (Across the Alabama River from Selma), I would be interested in joining a group effort for the Alabama tartan.

I had the same experience with the university tartan. Oregon State University had a tartan design contest. A lady won and the tartan was adopted as the official tartan of the university. Then the attorneys swept in with their licensing regulations. Pendleton Mills was awarded the rights to weave the tartan, but only for scarfs.

I spent a lot of time working with the honchos at my alma mater asking only for permission to allow Dalgliesh to weave just enough tartan to sew up one kilt. Permission was denied due to the licensing regulations. Even though no mill wove the tartan for kiltmaking. Even though the university tartan would make a great looking kilt for some band members, or a custom item to sell through the university bookstore. Rules are rules. So I have a scarf in the university tartan...but no kilt.

Gotta love Shakespeare's admonition about lawyers.....

The temptation to have the tartan woven with just one thread change to the tartan pattern remains a challenge to my normally ethical behaviors.
Mr. Riverkilt,

Amen and I'm right with you. Who know? Maybe this is something we could work together on down the road?

As for the University of Alabama, I have not yet started talking to them directly, but I'm not very optimistic.

Alabama seems to be borderline "nazi" on the whole licensing thing. Heck, our current Athletics Director is Bill Battle. Back in the 1980's he FOUNDED The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) - the group that started the whole college sports licensing business..

But regardless, I'm a long way off from being able to afford an $800 Kilt, even if I could get the fabric, so.....

I'm probably going to be looking for something more affordable, at least at first.