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,…
…and where urine was sometimes used) became less sustainable, and came to an end. There are no Harris Tweed® producers using completely 100% natural methods for dyeing/production in our industry…
…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…
…Tweed Industry’, is the first in-depth anthropological study of the Harris Tweed® industry and is composed of 236 pages that complement and update existing historical and ethnographic research. Joana –…
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,…
…comasach seasamh ri gaoth, uisge agus lasair agus cha leigear a leas obair crìochnachaidh a bharrachd a dhèanamh airson seo. A Sustainable Industry 1. 100% Natural Harris Tweed® is made…
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…