ALSO THIS WEEK...THIS IS SCOTLAND BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. 4, TUESDAY, 9pm It's one of the most iconic items of Scottish produce. It has been both a peasant cloth and a marker of upper-class taste since the Victorian ages.Yet in recent times the Harris Tweed Noun 1. Harris Tweed - a loosely woven tweed made in the Outer Hebrides tweed - thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product industry - an artisan craft of a kind which has all but gone from the British mainland - has been in crisis, undermined by pressure from a modern world. This three-part series chronicles a battle 'for the soul of Harris Tweed' fought out in the States and in Savile Row. |
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