Hot Scot Shop - The need for tweed
The need for tweed
by Scott Aitken
islanders who create it.
everything else in between.
here is no other intrinsically Scottish textile with the pedigree, recognition, style and substance of Harris Tweed. As strong and colourful as the landscape that inspires it yet as soft as the Gaelic accents of the
Once made by families solely for their own use this highly prized and hard-wearing 100 per cent wool fabric is now internationally fashionable. Hundreds of thousands of metres are shipped all over the world every year to be used for hats, footwear and
Although there are many imitations nothing has the same quality of excellence as the big cloth, or clò-mòr as it’s known in Gaelic.
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To legally be considered genuine only material that has been “hand
