Old Photograph Making Tweed Outer Hebrides Scotland

Old photograph of a crofter making Tweed on Island Of Harris, Scotland. For centuries the islanders of Lewis and Harris, the Uists, Benbecula and Barra have woven cloth by hand calling it Clò Mór in the original Gaelic or The big cloth. As the Industrial Revolution reached Scotland, mainland manufacturers turned to mechanisation but the Outer Hebrides retained their traditional processes.



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