OK, I was rooting through some older posts in some back threads and came across a tartan for the State of California. It's a nice looking Tartan, I like it!

........and I'm from California.

OK, so I'm gonna make my first kilt, as I keep writing on the forum, here (have to finish painting the house, first) and have decided that a tartan is actually probably the better way to go than a solid color.

I notice that a number of folks on the forum are interested in the California tartan.

OK, the web site where I saw the picture reports that they don't know if anyone actually weaves this cloth, but that possibly one of the weaves they work with would do it as a special order. OK, well, for me to get 5 yards of 24-inch fabric, or two-and-a-half yards of 48 inch fabric is probably not cost efficient and would be shockingly expensive.

But if I ordered two and a half yards of 48-inch tartan and five other people ordered two and a half yards, that would be six of us, and fifteen yards of fabric. Now that, they might actually do at a some-sort-of-reasonable price.

I'd want a mid-weight wool, probably around 11 ounce. 16 will be too heavy I'm sure.

Anybody interestd in this? If I hear from five or six of you, especially if one of you is a volume kiltmaker, I'll look into ordering and get some costs.

Alternatively, if a mess of us decide that we want California kilts then perhaps one of the volume manufacturers would consent to crank out a bundle of them and order the fabric, knowing that at least 5-6-7 would be sold.

OK, interested?