The New Season
Spring has finally sprung here in the Outer Hebrides, our island home of ‘Harris Tweed’. Anyone travelling the long and winding roads around Lewis and Harris cannot fail to notice the profound change...
View ArticleHarris Tweed Weavers Association
The structure of the ‘Harris Tweed’ industry is rather unusual for this day and age. Many people consider ‘Harris Tweed’ to simply be a single brand owned by a single company, however the reality is a...
View ArticleThe Weavers
Behind every single inch of Harris Tweed cloth lies an artisan, a real person who has taken the single, simple, raw material of dyed and spun wool and transformed it into something of great beauty....
View ArticleMeet The Weavers #01: Anna Macleod & Donald Montgomery
Harris Tweed weavers, by the very nature of their work, tend to be a solitary breed, shut away in their loom sheds each day, working with concentration as they create their cloth. Unless you know a...
View ArticleMeet The Weavers #02: Alasdair Murray
Alasdair Murray is a relative newcomer to the world of weaving having started his career with the cloth in 2011. For the previous 20 years ‘Aldy’, as he his known to his friends, worked offshore, like...
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