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2 unusual facts about The Harris Tweed Authority


The Harris Tweed Authority

The Harris Tweed Authority is an independent Statutory Public Body created by the Harris Tweed Act of Parliament 1993 replacing the Harris Tweed Association which formed in 1910.

When this trade mark, the Orb, was eventually granted, the Board insisted that it should be granted to all the islands of the Outer Hebrides i.e. to Lewis, North and South Uist, Benbecula and Barra, as well as to Harris, the rationale for this decision being that the tweed was made in exactly the same way in all those islands.



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