HARRIS TWEED DOCUMENTARY | A LIFE OF TWEED |

[@ronaldschwigel2286]

hello my name is ronald lee i support the harris tweed industry , and i am a proud wearer of the greatest tweed on the planet, thank you scotland.

[@ruthroobedo5938]

Roobedo here - wow. Such a lot of things have happened to the industry since you made this film Neil! You should be proud - it's a piece of history And I've aged quite a bit :)

[@ronschwigel8140]

harris tweed must remain in existence for all eternity so humanity can enjoy this great fabric.

[@stevemcgill2278]

My grandad had a Harris tweed suit, my late father had one, and I have two...may the legend of Harris Tweed live on.

[@rogersaxon7671]

Eternal brand synonymous with warmth and quality. I have caps, hats, some bags, bought in Scotland in 2014- Inverness, Fort William, Edinburgh tour! Thank you! from Buenos Aires Argentina

[@dennisjohnson7412]

Long may they make this fantastic product,

[@waltski4375]

Nice documentary! I fell in love with Harris Tweed a couple of years ago and have a number of Harris Tweed jackets and I still hunt for items on eBay. I hope the industry survives and thrives.

[@laurencegignac-nogues2375]

Artisans 👍👏patience, régularité, perfection.nement ! J'adore !

[@system87music]

Great, educational video on Harris Tweed! Like this!👍

[@thejasonbischoff]

I buy all the Harris Tweed I can find at thrift stores.

[@vincenteagles]

Very well done documentary

[@kcc85uk]

Got my first Harris Tweed jacket and waist coat yesterday so hopefully it will last for many years

[@MrTAT275]

Long live Harris Tweed!

[@ronaldschwigel2286]

as long as i live i will always be the wearer of it.

[@keithrose6931]

Harris Tweed is well on the up as it stands now .

[@nigelcarren]

Nice work Neil, I have just passed this on to somebody special! Best wishes from an Englishman in France. 🏆

[@nj2mddude205]

When I was in high school in the 1970s, it was common to see young men wear tweed pants during the winter season. My father used to take me to the local men's shop, which was stocked with tweed. The cloth was everywhere with many different patterns, textures and weights. I bought a Harris Tweed herringbone overcoat that everyone admired. It was very heavy, almost like wearing a rug. By the mid to late 1980s, the men's shops and the tweed were both gone. Today, it's next to impossible to find Harris tweed menswear locally. If you somehow manage to find it, the patterns and textures are extremely limited and the cloth is lightweight. It's frustrating. With winter arriving shortly, I'd love to wear classic Harris tweed clothing.

[@LovingAtlanta]

👍Terrific info. I’m so happy that the fabric is still produced in people’s homes on the island. I’m so thankful for the Harris Tweed of 1993. I don’t know how I knew it but even as a child I had enough good sense to know that Harris Tweed was something special. 💞

[@fionasaunders7646]

The tweed , is superb , so nice to see it on upholstery now.

[@mattkaczmarczyk6953]

Bought 1 jacket on sale from Topman for some £80 and I get compliments every time I wear it! Looks really classy

[@civilizeddiva]

1:28: Innovative: Peloton, before Peloton was a thing AND remote work😊

[@robertwilson123]

My Harris Tweed jackets, nicely worn with loose breast pocket hanky and matching shirt open necked or with crevat....are show stoppers at formal or informal events. People come up to me and say...what a beautiful Tweed jacket.... it's Harris Tweed I always reply.

[@kenryder5674]

Harris Tweed is a beautiful fabric and Ruth Morris is a beautiful lady!

[@mickeyhuggins7850]

How fair and most beautiful it's no wonder God put her on such a far away and barre. Known for a stop of the birds who can fly even they stare astonished of her beauty at the house of Roobedo we all are stopped in our place to glance upon her.

[@44musher]

Indeed sir you are correct, a fair lass is she.

[@ronschwigel8140]

i have my harris tweed waistcoats and newsboy caps-in milwaukee wisconsin usa 1-20-2023.

[@peterpalumbo1963]

I would like to know when Macy's in the US will sell Tweed again.For more then 25 years I have had problems finding it.

[@Олег-о1ъ3л]

У меня есть пиджак Харрис твид, я его очень люблю и рад, что у меня есть такая легендарная вещь

[@iansoutryer3189]

On a sidenote: who is playing the lively music?

[@iansoutryer3189]

Oh, I've just seen the credits: it's "Face the West" from Stornoway. And they're still around!

[@antoniescargo2954]

De man aan het begin gebruikt een uitdrukking die niet te verstaan is en die ook niet goed ondertiteld wordt. Video afgekeurd.

[@neilmacconnell9958]

“We used to have a saying, once upon a time. Fish a little, croft a little, weave a yard or two” The subtitles are created by KZbin and are obviously not perfect.

[@fletcherhamilton3177]

It’s a shame that nowadays they just ‘fuse’ the canvas to the fabric with glue in the construction of a jacket like this, thus dramatically shortening its natural life. It’s upwards of $2000 / £1,500 for a fully canvassed jacket, never-mind a Harris garment...

[@gregorymalchuk272]

What is the old way of canvassing a jacket? And by canvass, do you mean lining?

[@fletcherhamilton3177]

@@gregorymalchuk272 - no, not lining (which is usually polyester or, better, the superior ‘Benberg’); a full canvassed suit jacket / blazer has horse hair (usually horse but sometimes it’s other things), which is stitched to the inner lining of the jacket between the jacket’s cloth and the inside lining. This is what lends the jacket structure and durability. Compared to conventional canvassing methods, modern fused garments have this canvass glued to the fabric, recreating the firmness that a jacket requires but at a fraction of the cost, considering the vastly reduced man-hours. Many higher-end garments will be ‘half-canvassed’, which incorporates the requisite handwork but still reduces the time with the glue press. I had several Harris Tweed garments made at a high end Japanese department store called _Isetan_ ten years ago (¥130,000). Even though I already knew about the glue-press method in cheaper garments, I still felt confident that they wouldn’t have used such a means on tweed in such a high-end store, as my tailor in New Zealand - RJB Design - assured me that he would never apply glue to tweed because tweed is too ‘hairy’ to accept glue. _Nope._ Last year I went back to ask Isetan how they construct jackets (with a view to buying a new brown tweed), and they admitted that their garments were ‘half-canvassed’. It’s still a higher quality jacket, but still, the glue won’t survive multiple dry-cleanings and being caught in any spontaneous rain shower could spell certain doom, sadly . . . Fortunately I found a man in Tokyo - a shop called Tamaya - who can do full-canvassed jackets and suits. He threw me together a grey linen suit from Holland and Sherry South Pacific linen and it was a fantastic suit! When I have some spare money, I’ll get him to do me a Harris Tweed! Like most tailors he can also do a glue-pressed / half-canvassed suit at a reduced cost, if you’re a budget-conscious businessman who simply needs a suit without really worrying about its interior quality. I have no idea in places like Britain when they stopped using 100% canvass and switched to glue presses. I guess in the 1980s . . .