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) |