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Lewis Textiles weaves Harris Tweed and designs and produces unique
tweeds to bespoke design. All stages of tweed prepartion and weaving
is hand done. The bobbins are used to warp the tweed first of all.
The warp being handmade to ready a tweed for the loom. After the design
of the tweed has been decided on, the warp is put on a beam then the
threads (700 threads for the 75cm, 1400 for the 150cm) are knotted
one by one by hand. This has to be double checked for perfection of
the pattern of the tweed before the weaving of the cloth begins.
Once
woven, the tweed has to be finished, washed, scoured, then dried in
a special machine and given a blown finished if required. In the case
of Harris Tweed the cloth will then be stamped with the world famous
Orb mark to certify that it is genuine. A Harris Tweed label or labels
will be supplied with all orders.