What Are You Doing Here: Collegiate Craft Fabric

Any time I see the shape of my home state in Japan, it draws my attention and I have to investigate. In this case, I'm guessing for some reason Sanki has elected to stock random canvas-like uncut cloth bolts in the style of US collegiate patterns, probably as a deal to help some US based company that had originally sold these on the other side of the Pacific offload their unsold surplus.

I can't be terribly surprised that some famous schools may have gone fast and others with bright colors or fun mascots next. The maroon of Texas A&M with only the name logo over the state hardly compares, so here is waits for someone desperate enough to use it anyway.

Of course, if they had had my university, I would have bought the whole bolt, but since they didn't, I left this where I found it, weirded out by its presence.