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2. Hodden - Wikipedia

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   Hodden, with wadmal, represent two similar cultural fabrics in Scottish history. Hodden is an early-modern period name for a primarily Gaelic fabric, earlier named lachdann [1] in Gaelic, and even earlier lachtna [2] in Old Irish; while wadmal was a Scandinavian fabric, in the now-Scottish islands and Highlands. Both are usually woven in 2/2 ...

3. Osnaburg - Wikipedia

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   Osnaburg fabric may have been first imported into English-speaking countries from the German city of Osnabrück, from which it gets its name. Scottish weavers produced a coarse lint- or tow-based linen imitation in the later 1730s, which quickly became the most important variety in east-central Scotland. Sales quadrupled, from 0.5 million yards ...

4. Robert Noble (company) - Wikipedia

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   Robert Noble was a weaving and textiles business based in the Scottish borders town of Peebles.The origins of the company can be traced back to 1666 [1] when it was formed in Galashiels under the name of David Ballantyne.

5. Fulling - Wikipedia

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   Scotswomen walking (fulling) woollen cloth, singing a waulking song, 1772 (engraving made by Thomas Pennant on one of his tours). Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelt waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it ...

6. Harris Tweed Authority - Wikipedia

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   The Harris Tweed Orb Mark Harris Tweed jacket. The Harris Tweed Authority (HTA) is an independent statutory public body created by the Harris Tweed Act 1993, replacing the Harris Tweed Association, which was formed in 1910.

7. Traditional dyes of the Scottish Highlands - Wikipedia

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   Traditional dyes of the Scottish Highlands are the native vegetable dyes used in Scottish Gaeldom.. The following are the principal dyestuffs with the colours they produce. Several of the tints are very bright, but have now been superseded for convenience of usage by various synthetic dy

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9. Harris tweed - Wikipedia

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   The original name of tweed fabric was "tweel", the Scots word for twill, as the fabric was woven in a twill weave rather than a plain (or tabby) weave.A number of theories exist as to how and why "tweel" became corrupted into "tweed"; in one, a London merchant in the 1830s, upon receiving a letter from a Hawick firm inquiring after "tweels", misinterpreted the spelling as a trade name taken ...