Loud Macleod
Behind the bright and bold famous Loud Macleod tartan, the warping frame and colourful bobbins: steps in the process of for the single width loom. Loom at Shawbost Weavers…
Behind the bright and bold famous Loud Macleod tartan, the warping frame and colourful bobbins: steps in the process of for the single width loom. Loom at Shawbost Weavers…
…Harris Tweed® fabric: understanding its definition, composition, how it handles on the cutting and sewing table, how it performs and hangs in the tailoring process. Each year a few, fortunate,…
…is organised by An Comunn Gàidhealach (The Highland Association) and was founded in Oban in 1891. As Scotland’s premier Gaelic festival, it celebrates our Gaelic linguistic and cultural heritage and…
The Harris Tweed Authority Trophy is awarded annually at the Royal National Mòd to the winners of the ‘Waulking Group’ competition. Pictured are this year’s recipients, Comhlan Luadh Bhàideanach receiving…
…global capitalism. The book is available to buy from https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/NascimentoWorking ____________________________________ Joana Nascimento works as a postdoctoral teaching and research associate at the University of Cambridge. Her research explores the…
Yet more stormy days in the Outer Hebrides. Waves make their way, pushing through folds of jagged rock. Force meets force. Crisscross blue herringbone cut through with lines of orange,…
Harris Tweed Authority Educational Trust 2021 Online Conference Monday 3rd – Tuesday 4th May, £7.50 Book Your Place: https://www.harristweed.org/conference/ This year, we at the Harris Tweed Authority have decided to…
…to see how the cloth comes from the land… Our Gaelic Coastal Word of the Week comes from “Scotland’s Nature Agency, Buidheann Nàdair na h-Alba” https://www.nature.scot/…/dictionary-gaelic-nature-words Photograph by Lewis Mackenzie…
A regular sight, this one from 1996: the delivery of double-width beams to weavers homes across the island, and a helpful collie inspecting proceedings! Visit our archives https://www.harristweed.org/archive/ Photographer unknown….
“Neilie, July ’95. Pity about the shirt.” Photograph by DI MacArthur. Visit our archives https://www.harristweed.org/archive/ Spot a familiar face in any of our archive posts? Get in touch, we’d love…