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Tweed Is the New Black.(International Edition; FASHION FILES)(Brief article)
Byline: Abbas Poptani
Intricate designs, expert finishing. Sounds like a big-city fashion house--but in this case, it's the mills of the Outer Hebrides. On these remote Scottish isles, the weavers of Harris Tweed are bringing Britain's famous fabric back from the brink of extinction.
The centuries-old industry, which has been slowly declining since the 1970s, ran into serious trouble in 2006, when Yorkshire industrialist Brian Haggas took over the MacKenzie Group (responsible for 98 percent of local tweed). Haggas cut out thousands of patterns and replaced them with four drab prototypes. He also shifted the bulk of manufacturing and jobs to China. It appeared Harris Tweed was becoming one more relic of a ...
- Harris Tweed Hebrides is Scotland's Textile Brand of the Year.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire June 29, 2009 700+ words
M2 PRESSWIRE-29 June 2009-Harris Tweed Hebrides: Harris Tweed Hebrides is Scotland's Textile Brand of the Year(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:29062009 Harris Tweed Hebrides has won recognition from fashion leaders...
- New look at fabled Harris Tweed uncovers new consumer attitudes.
- Magazine article from: Daily News Record Maycumber, S. Gray August 26, 1993 700+ words
...packet of information from the Harris Tweed Association in the UK. The green...the U.S. consumer thinks about Harris Tweed. The mailing is the beginning of a new promotional push by the Harris Tweed Promotional Council, resulting...
- Dunmore chooses iomart to put Harris Tweed on cyberspace map; Government...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire October 9, 2000 700+ words
...IOMART: Dunmore chooses iomart to put Harris Tweed on cyberspace map; Government minister...08102000 STORNOWAY and GLASGOW -- Harris Tweed, currently the darling of haute couture...online.com), who sell made to measure Harris Tweed garments, was launched into cyberspace...
- Thread carefully; Why our once booming Harris Tweed fashion industry has fallen...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) Strachan, Angus January 30, 2003 700+ words
Byline: ANGUS STRACHAN HARRIS Tweed. There is a comforting, not to...identified with more than a people. Harris Tweed speaks of a way of life. It is...presently up for sale? The story of Harris Tweed is plain enough. In the Outer...
- 2 Harris tweeds firms form new joint venture.(Kenneth Mackenzie Ltd. and...
- Magazine article from: Daily News Record Fallon, James July 31, 1996 700+ words
...The two largest manufacturers of Harris Tweed have formed a joint marketing company...Ltd. have linked up to form the KM Harris Tweed Group. The company will be officially...and its wholly owned subsidiary The Harris Tweed Trading Co. will introduce Harris Tweed...
- Scots fund drive to promote increased use of Harris Tweed. (Scottish Government...
- Magazine article from: Daily News Record Fallon, James August 4, 1993 700+ words
...FNS) -- The Scottish Government and Harris Tweed industry have launched a five-year...terminal decline," the government said. Harris Tweed production last year was about 1 million...the next five years, according to the Harris Tweed Working Party, which developed the...
- EVEREST TO DESIGN HARRIS TWEED COLLECTION; CELEBRATED BRITISH TAILOR TO USE...
- Magazine article from: Daily News Record Fallon, James November 8, 1999 700+ words
...bespoke tailor, will link up with KM Harris Tweed for fall 2000 to offer a capsule collection...part of a drive to update the image of Harris Tweed, which has suffered over the last five...length and design. However, the Harris Tweed Association, which is backed by the...
- Double-width looms usher in change for Harris Tweed making.
- Magazine article from: Daily News Record Gridley, Clark June 22, 1995 700+ words
...industry wary of progress, weavers of Harris Tweed are slowly embracing the biggest technological...million pound strategy to revive the Harris Tweed industry. The industry has been caught...a development aimed at the future of Harris Tweed," said Angus MacKenzie, CEO of the...