Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day to our entire Harris Tweed® Family – this is our Love Story. The yarn can be red, the weft could be blue, so long as it’s made…
Happy Valentine’s Day to our entire Harris Tweed® Family – this is our Love Story. The yarn can be red, the weft could be blue, so long as it’s made…
“You have to be a bit tenacious to live on an island like this. It has a magnetic force to it, even if it can be horrible at times with…
Today’s Harris Tweed® word is ‘spàl’. The ‘spàl’ is the shuttle that holds the pirn on the Hattersley loom. This flies back and forth delivering the weft – the yarns…
Today’s Harris Tweed® word is ‘dealg’. The ‘dealg’ is the pin from inside the shuttle. This is where the pirn or the ‘iteachan’ sits. Many islanders have fond (or not…
COVID-19: HTA Update In our best efforts to be responsible to our staff, our customers and the small tight-knit community we live in, the HTA is following advice and closing…
The Harris Tweed® Gaelic Word of the Week is ‘daoine’. ‘Daoine’ means people. And we couldn’t do this without you. #HarrisTweedFamily…
Today’s Gaelic Harris Tweed® word is ‘dlùth’. ‘Dlùth’ is the word for the warp, the yarns that run top to bottom in a Harris Tweed® weave. Thank you to Rebecca…
Listen to the rhythmic rattle of the pirn winder. This machine winds the yarn onto pirns (in Gaelic known as ‘iteachan’), which are inserted inside wooden shuttles. The shuttles, which…
Blue herringbone with orange, mint and black overcheck. What images does this Harris Tweed® cloth evoke? Golden scallop shells and seaweed, black rock scattered along blue shores. The messiness of…