  We investigate the observable consequences of creating cosmic texture by
breaking a global SU(3) symmetry, rather than the SU(2) case which is generally
studied. To this end, we study the nonlinear sigma model for a totally broken
SU(3) symmetry, and develop a technique for numerically solving the classical
field equations. This technique is applied in a cosmological context: the
energy of the collapsing SU(3) texture field is used as a gravitational source
for the production of perturbations in the primordial fluids of the early
universe. From these calculations, we make predictions about the appearance of
the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) which
would be present if the large scale structure of the universe was
gravitationally seeded by the collapse of SU(3) textures.
