WOVEN into the FABRIC
The Isle of Lewis & Harris is renowned for its awesome scenery: rugged coastlines – where you’ll find some of the most beautiful beaches in the world – bleak mountains and lunar landscapes, where you’ll find glistening rocks carved out by glaciers in the Ice Ages.
The colours throughout the landscape are equally spectacular – you’ll see vibrant blues reflecting the skies and sea, golden gorse, blinding white sand, the warm browns and greens of the moors and the purple heather and myriad wildflowers dancing against the verdant machair. All of these shades are incorporated into Harris Tweed, the island’s most famous export, along with the lustrous reds of the poppies, blush pink of clover and soft yellow of the buttercups.
The people in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland have woven Harris Tweed for centuries. It has long been renowned locally both for its practical and
