Poetic descriptions of various Harris Tweed cloth:
1) At first a grey twill and back of a blue shark blue pinstripe. But underneath the shark is a cloud grey with subtle notes of what sky is behind the cloud blue and lowland moss green.
2) A Valentine red offered by a sheep hoof brown 10 by 10 herringbone.
3) The island is looking like this 8 on 8 herringbone. Nae clouds and any surviving green growth is burnt orange from the cold. The sun is causing squinty eyes and little grins.
4) A crisp checked early March morning on the moor. Deep orange of the moor grass against the yearlong green gorse bush. The sky is nice.
5) Lost in the Stornoway castle grounds, mid winter, late afternoon. An 8 by 8 herringbone of wet bark on hardy green leaves.
6) Here's a washboard twill of 'before grandads hair went white' grey next to a slightly slimmer underbelly of a brown trout brown.
7) Honeycomb held to the sunlight twill.
8) A blonde woman sitting on the harbour wall in Ness painting her nails red with the turquoise blue sea below her, clear blue sky above her and white beach sand behind her.
9) A complex houndstooth-esque weave of today's cloud white and 9 of 12 month drying peat brown, split by a wide check of plum maroon and roasting carrot orange.
10) A sun dried lavender sprig green and flower purple, sea rust brown and a flat white houndstooth.
* Information gathered from the Harris Tweed Authority *
