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Tweed weaves its magic through Scottish history and landscapes

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Harris Tweed Hebrides’ warper, Gus, demonstrates the process of transferring the warp from the drum to the weaver’s beam. With over 1400 individual warp threads running through a full length of Harris Tweed® fabric, precision is essential. The warp is meticulously prepared at the Shawbost Mill before being sent to the weaver’s home. Each thread is carefully placed on the drum to ensure the design is correctly set for weaving. Each beam also comes with its own identity card. This will see it corr

The transformation of raw wool into Harris Tweed® continues with the washing process 🫧 Returning from the weaver’s home to the mill in its greasy state, freshly darned tweeds make their way to the first stage in the finishing process - scouring and milling. Each tweed is sewn together to ensure a continuous loop, then loaded into the basin and washed to remove the oil and impurities picked up from earlier production processes. The cloth is then milled, rolled around in drums to create pressure,

Harris Tweed® fabric passes through many hands in the creation stages. Each step of the production process allows us to admire the craft of our Shawbost Mill workers who meticulously ensure continuous movement along the production line. At this stage, the soft carded wool has reached the end of the carding process. It’s all hands on deck as the yarn is transferred for spinning, where it will be strengthened and lengthened, ready for warping🧵 | Harris Tweed Hebrides

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