Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2024
Date 28-Jun
Volume 233
Issue 4,746
Page 84
Category General
Part 1
Title Harris Tweed - How engineering innovations transformed an island craft
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes Discovers how a cloth unique to the Outer Hebrides is woven. Lewis, Kenny Maclennan with his rapier loom, pirn winder, history, orb trademark, Ray Craig, Benbecula rocket range, Kildonan Museum, South Uist, spinning wheel at Taigh Chailean B&B Isle of Lewis, traditional tweed making, essential parts of a loom, Marion Campbell's pattern book (seen at Drinhader 'Clo Mhor' Exhibition), flying shuttle, Bonas-Griffith loom, beater (or sley)