I have contacted Dr Phil Smith He designed Tartans for the University of Tennessee http://www.utalumni.utk.edu/tartan.html University of Auburn, Clemson and many more organization. The UT colors are similar to the Dynamo . Please Check out the website and let me know if you have any suggestions (what colors, percentage, designs to change) Some examples of orange based tartans are ("Johnnie Walker", "Wombles", and "Aberdeen Football Club") He is willing to design and register a Tartan for us with our input.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design just by registering it, it makes it copyrighted. Would be registered at the central tartan agency ( whatever the place all tartans are registered officially) so no one can call it something different or design the same tartan and name it theirs.. we can call it the Houston Dynamo supporters tartan or if we have the Organization approve it and support ... Houston Dynamo tartan. i am just trying to get some designs drawings and get input for now..
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design man, i went to a college who's mascot is the "tartan" (yes, the mascot is a style of plaid). what would you like to do with this tartan, btw? tartan tartan tartan tartan... the word has lost all meaning now
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design My ancestors left Scotland to get away from this weirdness. What's next, Dynamo Bagpipes?
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design Better than Dynamo Windbags. Thank you, thank you. I'll be here for the rest of the week.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design My high school back in Indiana competed against a high school whose nickname was the Argylls. That's right, their nickname was a striped sock. They used some sort of Scottish warrior as their logo but we all knew the truth. They were the Fighting Diamond-patterned Socks.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design I agree. Let's get away from this "eurocentricity". I would have never said this two years ago. But that was that early days of TA (pre-EB) and I've grown since. I blame Rey.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design The real risk is that they may sign players and coaches of Scottish background in order to pander to the Scottish community. I just hate that kind of ethnic pandering.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design Have you had the haggis at Roberston? Awful. Not even fresh, frozen. And they don't take credit cards!
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design Do we have to copy everything that's European? I mean, I'm all for some European emulation, but plaid?
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design a rival high school if ours in NY were called the Huguenots-I know the fact that they were named for a bunch of French Protestants sent fear through out Section I.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design I'm half scottish, and would be prowd to have a dynamo tartan. If it's not Scottish, it's crap!
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design the state of Texas, each branch of the military have their own tartan.. you don't' see everyone in Texas with boots, a kilt and a cowboy hat... just think of it as the team has its own tartan... something special and unique and globally recognizable.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design This IS ethnic pandering at its finest. Clinck that link and I vote for #3. Anyone have a pic of the tenors we had for the playoffs, or even better of the walkout vs Colorado in the WCF two years ago, when there was the bagpipe squad with Scottish Neil's wee lil' lad holding the Texian Checkered flag to walk out in front of the team with. We already have Scots turn up in the North End wearing their own clan kilts. This spirit can be grown even more if we have a Orange Tratan! You banana heads forget we have Scottish men in the Texian Army and they and their families have been in on the Dynamo North End since Opening Night? Neil has gotten some other Scots to come out in support of Houston. We even had Celtic night out in year 1. With a Orange Tartan that type of multi-cultural connection can continue to be cultivated via the beautiful game. I'd love to have a Houston Dynamo Tartan.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design Very creative -- I like it! I vote for #1 because it looks the most like our colors when I squint my eyes.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design What you hadn't noticed them yet? At the Oct 7th game there was a bagpiper with the Dynamo band and no matter how loud the crowd got, I could still hear that one guy.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design Ya! I saw that guy up there in Aubry's Milita Band that night. If it was the same bagbipe guy I found playing downtown I would be shocked. I told him to bring his pipes out to a Dynamo game.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design I'll wear the ever fashionable sport kilt if they make one with the Dynamo tartan and Sam wears one I'm not Scottish but I am Presbyterian-so it's all good
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design If we're going to go ahead and get a tartan registered, I would like something like number one in the above link. I like the solid, bold orange squares, nicely delineated by the clean, black lines. Plus, it has the potential for striping in some Space City Blue as in the above sample. I'd wear it. I'm no Scotsman, but I do have alot of Scotch in me - that has to count for something.
Re: Houston Dynamo Tartan Design Did someone point out that yesterday was "Day of the Scots" - St. Andrews Day, Nov, 30th? I've got in touch with the president of Texas Scottish Heritage Society several months ago about the tartan process. Was saving it for pre-season next year - but might as well get the discussion going. We were going to approach the FO about designing a Houston Dynamo tartan - to coordinate and promote in April as Scottish Heritage monht - and of course see about a scottish day with the dynamo type promotion. Did you know Texas has a tartan - the Bluebonnet Tartan... and I actually like it. One question I had was whether we should just do a Dynamo tartan, or if we also wanted to do a Texian Army tartan. Any thoughts? Here's some interesting TX history about scots: http://www.txscot.com/texas_day_of_the_scots.htm Think we could get some sponsorship here: http://www.kiltmakers.com/ The premier kiltmaker in the world is "Houston Kiltmakers" (yes, they're in Scotland, not Houston)