Tweed is a wool patterned fabric that has become synonymous with Scottish and Irish style. The rough, twill fabric originated in the Scottish highlands in the nineteenth century, and it is still used today for coats, jackets, suits, and more.
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The Duchess of Cambridge is a big fan of tweed - there’s no doubt about that. From coats, to dresses, to suits and even shoes, we’ve spotted Kate out and about wearing the woolen fabric countless ...
Tweed making at the Leach family woollen mill at Mochdre, Powys, Wales, 1940 The original name of the cloth was tweel, Scots for twill, the material being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. A traditional story has the name coming about almost by chance. Around 1831, a London merchant, James Locke, received a letter from a Hawick firm, Wm. Watson & Sons, Dangerfield Mills about ...
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tweed, any of several fabrics of medium-to-heavy weight, rough in surface texture, and produced in a great variety of colour and weave effects largely determined by the place of manufacture. The descriptions “Scottish,” “Welsh,” “Cheviot,” “Saxony,” “Harris,” “Yorkshire,” “Donegal,” and “West of England,” for example, cover an extremely wide range of woolen and ...